The Editor’s Personality Test: What Kind of Video Editor Are You?

It’s fun to consider how your personal attitude towards your creative workflow can be catered to by the apps that you use and the videos that you make.

DISCLAIMER: The MBTI test is pseudoscience and should not be used for anything other than entertainment purposes.

🎬 ISTJ: The Organized and Tidy Editor

ISTJ Personality Characteristics:
- You are a thorough planner and systematically progress from storyboarding to editing
- You boldly cut unnecessary scenes and produce clear, coherent stories
- You prefer a neat design aesthetic and consistent font use

ISTJ Editing Style:
- Easy to understand narrative style
- Sans-serif titles and subtitles
- Timing is important to you, matching cuts to music beats

Favorite content:
📚 Tutorials: Well thought out and topical information presented clearly and concisely
📝 Vlogs: An organized video that shows off your organized life
💡 Cooking videos: The tastiest way to indulge your methods of organization

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: Every tool has a purpose and a place in this powerful video editor
- Spring: A clean UI and fast access to the editing tools that you use
- CapCut: Trim and cut videos with ease in this popular video editor

🎬 ISFJ: The Cautious and Considerate Editor

ISFJ Personality Characteristics:
- You add subtle flourishes and pay attention to detail while editing
- You appreciate telling stories with positive emotional resonance
- You consider what cuts and transitions will make your audience happiest

ISFJ Editing Style:
- Seamless scene transitions and clever editing tricks
- Color filters emphasize the emotional content of your scenes
- Attention to emotional meaning in text and titles

Favorite content:
💖 Sentimental videos: Videos that look fondly on times past
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family videos: Videos made for cherishing fond memories
🌟 Brand stories: Videos that transform brands into stories people identify with

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app’s color filters and bokeh transitions are your best friends
- Spring: Make quick edits that create a complex emotional tapestry with this editor
- InShot: Lots of filters lend themselves to tugging at your heartstrings

🎬 INFJ: The Asynchronous Storyteller

INFJ Personality Characteristics:
- You appreciate meaningful subtext to your videos
- You like to leave people thinking about your videos long after they’ve finished watching
- You prefer unique editing techniques to get your viewers to stop scrolling and watch

INFJ Editing Style:
- Narrative-centered videos
- Profound music scoring choices
- Subtle color correction and image adjustments

Favorite content:
🌟 Brand Stories: Videos that show what makes a brand special
🎥 Documentaries: Videos that explore hidden connections between people and events
🎞 Dramatic cinema: Videos that have powerful emotional impact

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: KineMaster’s AI tools and keyframes make it easy to add incredible background detail to your videos
- AniToon: Go into uncharted video territory when you combine videos with animation
- VN Editor: Combine narration and voiceovers with background music

🎬 INTJ: The Strategic Editor

INTJ Personality Characteristics:
- You produce videos only through efficient and careful planning
- You edit from beginning to end using preplanned storyboards and meticulous notes
- You don’t leave scenes unfinished before moving on to the next

INTJ Editing Style:
- Everything is planned in advance, with editing deadlines
- All your VFX are secured in advance and ready when you are
- Focus on technical perfection

Favorite content:
💼 Luxury brand commercials: Innovative content and advanced editing techniques
📊 Corporate presentations: Clear and coherent information delivery
🎓 Tutorials: Stay in the flow of things with a clear beginning and end

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app lets you work in discrete projects and merge them for a final export
- Spring: This app’s clean UI leaves little distraction while working on important edits
- Adobe Premiere Rush: Use content planning software with Rush’s built-in support for other Adobe apps for a robust workflow

🎬 ESFJ: The Sensitive Editor

ESFJ Personality Characteristics:
- You love sentimental videos
- You highlight the emotional aspect in the stories you tell
- Music choices are very important in your videos

ESFJ Editing Style:
- A preference for videos with soft pastels and low contrast
- You make cuts for maximum emotional impact
- Harmonious design elements in text and titles blend into the video

Favorite content:
💖 Hallmark movies: Honest stories that elicit empathy
🎉 Special event videos: Milestones, generational gatherings, and civic gatherings
🌟 Brand stories: Highlighting the relationship between brands and their customers

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app has the tools you need for compelling celebratory videos
- Spring:This app offers a wide variety of soft pastel transitions and effects
- Canva: Makes visual design elements easy to assemble for video editing

🎬 ISTP: Efficient and Technical Editor

ISTP Personality Characteristics:
- You can make decisive editing choices quickly
- You aren’t afraid of incorporating motion graphics and flashy animations
- You like fast cuts and strong visual contrasts

ISTP Editing Style:
- Timeline looks like a glitter bomb rather than long blocks of video
- Incorporating memes, popular media, and public domain content is a no-brainer
- Technical ability takes a back seat to maximizing visual impact

Favorite content:
🎬 Action movies: Immersive, fast paced stories and intense effects
🛠 Gaming highlights: Dynamic interaction between narrative and game play
🎮 VFX showreels: Non-stop, brilliant visual effects

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app makes it easy to create fast paced videos and gameplay
- Spring: Perfect for packing as much content as possible into a short video
- PowerDirector: Offers a variety of interesting and fun effects for video projects

🎬 ESTJ: The Focus-oriented Editor

ESTJ Personality Characteristics:
- You take a top-down approach to editing
- You want to make your point with maximum visual impact
- You want your videos to be seen and appreciated by the most people possible

ESTJ Editing Style:
- Concise video clips say what they must and no more
- Well-organized frill-free timeline
- Can make the most of short clips to tell intense, interesting stories

Favorite content:
🏢 Corporate videos: Content that gets results from leadership
📋 Review videos: Provides exactly the information needed to make decisions
📰 News and commentary videos: Content that delivers key points quickly and clearly

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app makes fast powerful cuts easy
- Spring: This app helps prioritize the most important content with a streamlined Timeline
- FilmoraGo: Use powerful video editing tools to create amazing corporate video content

🎬 ENFP: The Trendy Editor

ENFP Personality Characteristics:
- You enjoy making unconventional videos that get attention
- Your design considerations take second place to having fun
- The more dazzling the video edits are, the better!

ENFP Editing Style:
- Fast-paced text and dynamic visual effects are everywhere
- Cuts match the beat of the song or they don’t, either way is fine
- Extremely experimental effect use and stacked transitions maximize wow factor

Favorite content:
🎥 Rapid-fire video snippets: Videos that combine narration and a ton of visual information
🌟 Highlight reels: Showcases of only the best of a body of work, ideally delivered quickly
🎬 Short ad spots: The more information conveyed in 5 seconds, the better

Recommended apps:
- Spring: Great for throwing together draft videos with a rough polish of effects and transitions
- KineMaster: Create flashy, fun videos with lots of fonts, effects, and transitions
- AniToon: Perfect for creating unique animated videos

🎬 ENTP: The Creative Editor

ENTP Personality Characteristics:
- You love to experiment with new ideas
- You like making visual play that uses humor to make a point
- You like videos that go off script and incorporate a variety of styles

ENTP Editing Style:
- Experimental, dynamic movement between video clips
- Emphasize humor and play through entertaining compositional contrasts
- Not afraid to add decorative graphics just because

Favorite content:
😂 Comedy videos: Creative content edited to delight
🤩 Reaction videos: Capturing and conveying the essence of surprise
🎬 Guerrilla advertising: Unconventional and in-your-face business content

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: A creative playground for editors willing to try anything and everything
- AniToon: Great for putting together still images and animating stop-motion videos
- Spring: Perfect for one-off reactions and combining unexpected video elements together

🎬 ISFP: The Artistic Editor

ISFP Personality Characteristics:
- You love editing highly visual content
- Composition and color are incredibly important in your videos
- Intuition and free-association rule your editing techniques

ISFP Editing Style:
- Artistic flow to cuts with strong aesthetic appeal
- Subtle changes to content to highlight visual appeal
- Music scoring choices that emphasize visual expression

Favorite content:
🌍 Travel vlogs: Content that focuses on the beauty of discovery
🎞 Short films: Content that explores artistic expression in cinema
🎨 Video arts: Conceptual creativity expressed in video

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: The KineMaster Asset Store comes fully loaded with mind-bending visual effects
- Spring: Turn a loose idea into a fully realized video with this app
- Prequel: Comes loaded with outstanding filters and effects

🎬 ESFP: The Entertainment Editor

ESFP Personality Characteristics:
- You leave your viewers enthusiastic to see what you’ll make next
- You use every video tool to amp up the excitement level of every clip
- Large, sweeping changes in video content and tone keep the dopamine hits going

ESFP Editing Style:
- The bigger and brighter the transitions, the better!
- A video isn’t done if the music scoring doesn’t hit
- Every text and design piece increases the excitement level

Favorite content:
🚀 Whatever's hot: If it’s viral, it’s For You
🎥 Luxury apartment tours: Visualize (with video) what you want to become
🎉 Concerts and clubbing: Videos with incredible energy and fun

Recommended apps:
- Spring: The top choice for social videos that blow up
- KineMaster: There’s no alternative for editing videos that get your blood pumping
- CapCut: Create fun videos with trending music and text & title effects

🎬 INFP: The Thoughtful Editor

INFP Personality Characteristics:
- You make videos that deliver powerful messages and have emotional draw
- You use dreamlike VFX and musical choices to step outside of ordinary creative boundaries
- You don’t make videos without personal meaning and introspection

INFP Editing Style:
- Purposeful, muted color filters and smooth transitions between video clips
- Narration and music scoring are often additional characters in your stories
- Strong emotional resonance with very minimal timing adjustments

Favorite content:
🌸 Aesthetic vlogs: Living and design-focused content that focuses on purpose and meaning
✍️ Self-discovery videos: Journeys where the video constructs a meaningful, introspective story
🎞 Narrative short films: Listen and watch a storyteller’s universe condensed into a video

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: The wide view of the timeline lets you make surprising content connections with this video editor
- Spring: Try different filters and transitions to create memorable videos
- AniToon: Take your imagination and put it to the screen with this animation app

🎬 ENTJ: The Production Editor

ENTJ Personality Characteristics:
- You are a goal-oriented editor and each cut serves a purpose
- You never waste time with clips, audio, or graphics that don’t serve the narrative
- You make videos that have a coherent, tight story structure

ENTJ Editing Style:
- Clean cuts that logically move the story along
- Storyboard work closely matches end results
- No-frills timeline that has exactly the content needed to get the job done

Favorite content:
📊 Tutorials: videos that use best practice teaching methods to help get you up to speed
🏢 Training videos: Videos with strong connections between narration and presentation to scratch that organizational itch
🎓 Lecture series: Watch someone present original material in a fresh, compelling way

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app lets you focus on your content with a clean timeline and tidy UI
- Spring: Helpful when all you want is to see what’s happening on your timeline without tools cluttering your workspace
- Adobe Premiere Rush: Leverage the power of desktop tools when creating on your phone or tablet

🎬 ESTP: The Improvisational Editor

ESTP Personality Characteristics:
- You zen out when editing, focusing purely on the process
- You surprise everyone, even yourself, with the creative editing solutions you find
- You are happiest when you have a long list of videos to make

ESTP Editing Style:
- Fast cuts and heavy use of VFX
- Sound effects for everything!
- Go deep with multiple visual meanings for every clip

Favorite content:
🏃 Sports highlights: Review only the decisive moments
🎮 Gameplay videos: Zero in on the fun with videos that show the best parts
🚀 Viral videos: Amazing videos that grab your attention

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: Go as deep as you want with KineMaster’s huge library of VFX
- Spring: Amazing for greeting off-the-cuff fast action edits
- LumaFusion: Build a project exactly the way you want with LumaFusion’s robust editing interface

🎬 ENFJ: The Altruistic Editor

ENFJ Personality Characteristics:
- You make videos that inspire others
- You try to make your message clear with your editing decisions
- You aren’t afraid to bare your feelings in your edits

ENFJ Editing Style:
- The video content fits the message that you are trying to convey
- Clips and VFX that heighten the emotional appeal of a video are important considerations
- You obsess over how background music and SFX heighten the poignancy of a video

Favorite content:
🌟 Motivational videos: Content that provides emotional support and empathetic messages
🎤 Self-improvement videos: Stories about how people have transformed their lives
🌍 Social awareness videos: Videos that encourage positive change and empathy for other

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app lets you change and revise how visual effects and music are applied down to the tenth of a second
- Spring: This app is great for creating videos rich in personal meaning
- Canva: Full of templates and design layouts to promote nearly any social message possible

🎬 INTP: Logical and Experimental Editor - Idea Researcher

INTP Personality Characteristics:
- You are not afraid to try new tools and tech to get the shots you need
- You can execute complex edits and make it look easy
- You are always looking for new and novel ways to present your ideas

INTP Editing Style:
- Innovative editing tricks and techniques are used all the time
- Edits to each part of the timeline are organized and thoughtful
- Editing is a technical, demanding activity that gets your full attention

Favorite content:
🧪 Review videos: Content that organizes complicated ideas into a step-by-step guide
📊 Tutorials: Learning something new about editing is always a delight
🎥 Documentaries: Storytelling with a clear goal

Recommended apps:
- KineMaster: This app lets you get as nitpicky as you’d like with complex project merging and replacement tools
- AniToon: A valuable tool for storyboarding and previs for thinking through difficult editing challenges
- DaVinci Resolve: Powerful color correction and detailed editing features technical VFX

What’s your editing style?

Whether or not any one of these “Editing Types” speaks to you, your video editing journey will never be just one thing or another. There are so many different styles and types of content to make– you’re never going to be stuck in just one frame of mind.

Your choice of video editor is just as unique and important as your way of looking at the world. Which one will you choose? 🎬✨