Written, not narrated
Every guide is text and stills you can skim, search and re-read at your own pace. No 20-minute video to scrub through when you need one setting.
Editors, be cold.
About EditorVault: editing, explained by people who edit.
EditorVault is 20 free written guides to video editing — timeline fundamentals, cut timing, colour, audio sync and export settings — plus printable cheat sheets for the numbers nobody memorises. No account, no paywall, no upsell at the end.
20 guides6 cheat sheetsFree to read, no account
How we write
Four rules, applied to every guide.
These are the constraints the library is written under. They are why a guide reads the way it does.
Software-agnostic
The concepts come first, with specific steps for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut and CapCut. Learn it once and it survives your next NLE switch.
Written by working editors
Each guide covers the decision an editor actually makes at the timeline — which cut, which frame rate, which export preset — not a tour of the menus.
Free, with no account
No paywall, no signup, no email wall before the useful part. Read a guide, download a cheat sheet, close the tab.
What we are building
A reference you keep coming back to.
Most editing tutorials are written to be watched once. These are written to be returned to — when you need the right frame rate for a slow-motion shot, or the export preset that stops YouTube softening your footage.
Concepts before button-clicking
Real numbers: frame rates, bitrates, codecs
Printable cheat sheets for the things you look up twice a day
Corrections when a guide gets something wrong
Start with the timeline.
Timeline Basics covers the vocabulary every other guide assumes. It takes about eight minutes to read.