Cut it out!

10 Seasons.
214 episodes.
160 hours of footage.
From beginning to end, 6 and 1/2 straight days of Stargate SG-1!  Oh, and that doesn't include the hours and hours of extra features and deleted and behind-the-scenes footage that never made it to air (Hello, Trio confirmation anyone?).

So how does a fan vidder decide which Sam/Jack scenes will make the cut? Sexy or sappy?  Humorous or angsty? So many emotions to choose and so many musical choices to make them great.  Get ready for a ride on a great big emotional roller coaster as we take a look at the first half of the nominees for Best Video Editing.

Best Editing

Video editing is a very time consuming post-production process that includes, but is not limited to, scene transitions, lighting, special effects, sound recordings and accompanying text.

Bleeding Love : A Sam/Jack video

by LoveNeverEnds/MrsDanielJackson

You'll be lost in the cavern from the start of this vid and struggling to find your way out of the continuous angst.  By the time you get to the beautifully layered black and white scenes and you won't know what to do with yourself. MrsDanielJackson pulls at your heart with the amazing scenes she's chosen to accompany this heart-wrenching song.

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Jack & Sam; rubik's cube

by MissRainbowPie

Happiness, sadness, uncertainty, laughter, and angst abound!  Jam-packed with so many wonderfully shippy images and emotions, you'll find yourself laughing one minute and crying the next with the happily-ever-afters and angsty good-byes.  MissRainbowPie uses such beautifully rich colors to highlight each clip and the transitions from scene-to-scene dance to the song like a heartbeat.  What a wonderful analogy for the complexity that is Sam and Jack!  Watch and rewatch and watch again.

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Sam & Jack - E.T.

by Jarterlove

Is it warm in here?

Damn!

The rhythm of the song combined with every tantalizingly shippy touch, glance, and kiss from ten awesome seasons of SG-1, will pull you in and keep you mesmerized from beat one!  It's intense and it's HAWT! 

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latch

by MissRainbowPie

Another vid that showcases MissRainbowPie's amazing talent for using colors to tell a story.  The fades of color to black and white and then to black to transition between the scenes is seamless.  The intensity of the story increases as the vid goes on (as does the intensity of those looks) and culminates in such bittersweet tenderness that you won't be able to keep the *Shippy Sigh* from escaping your lips.

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SG-1 Resistence
by akachankami

Still feeling the heat?  

akachankami proves why this category was made for her talent.  Her ability to create such an intense and meaningful story in such a short amount of time and use not only clips from the show, but music and color to enhance that intensity is a talent that is rare.  Once again as we let ourselves get lost, we hear a song that fits so well with the images on screen and spectacularly portrays the potency of the emotions our favorite twosome repress that it pulls at our hearts, leaving us breathless with them.