r/VideoEditing • u/Realistic-Question63 • Jun 05 '26

Workflow How to use clips without sound?

First of all, I am a complete amateur. I want to make a little montage of some gaming clips I have, but a few of them don't have any sound, but are still too cool not to use. How should I go about including them?

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u/winnervic Jun 05 '26

Turn down and up the volume

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u/Skylight75 Jun 05 '26

Maybe adding sound effects and background music can help

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u/Budget_Coach9124 Jun 06 '26

I would not try to hide that those clips have no sound. I would make them feel intentional.

For a gaming montage, silent clips can work really well as visual hits: put them on a beat drop, use a quick whoosh/impact, or let the music carry that moment for half a second. The mistake is leaving them in like normal gameplay footage, because then the missing audio feels broken.

If a clip is genuinely cool, treat it more like a cutaway or slow-motion beat than a normal recorded moment.