Anybody have any video editing tips?

[VoltySquirrel]

After a match of heavy turtle bullshit/madness, I had a ton of footage on my hands. Rather than post it all separately on YouTube, I plan to cut it all together into a 5-10 minute highlight reel/frag movieish thing. I recently downloaded a NLE called Lightworks. I'm still learning the quirks with it, but I think I have a handle on it. So, my question is to any and all video editors out there, especially any familiar with Lightworks: Any ideas or tips, do and don'ts, etc.?

[Echoplex]

If you actually managed to get a handle on it, congrats. Considering it takes most people months to start using those kinds of things functionally, you're clearly far ahead already. But, I would recommend the Windows movie maker, iMovie, or Premier if you're just hacking up footage and clipping it together because something like Lightworks or Final Cut is kind of the swiss army knife solution

Make sure you do all of your work, save all your renders, etc, to a central scratch location. Losing edits, imports, and .dvs because you're in 3 workspaces at once is infuriating

[VoltySquirrel]

If you actually managed to get a handle on it, congrats. Considering it takes most people months to start using those kinds of things functionally, you're clearly far ahead already. But, I would recommend the Windows movie maker, iMovie, or Premier if you're just hacking up footage and clipping it together because something like Lightworks or Final Cut is kind of the swiss army knife solution

Make sure you do all of your work, save all your renders, etc, to a central scratch location. Losing edits, imports, and .dvs because you're in 3 workspaces at once is infuriating

Well, I chose Lightworks because A) its free, B) much deeper and fully featured than Movie Maker, and C) because the interface is the most intuitive. I generally only work in one area and keeps backups of stuff, so I should be fine there.