The One Where She Edits (Finally)

 

My Editing Process

    I FINALLY got to get the first half of my editing done today. I say finally like it isn't on me that it's like this, but oh well. Sometimes we have to complain for no reason. But anyway, today I set up every scene and synced them one. To be honest, this is probably going to be the easiest part of editing since tomorrow I have to add the music and credits, along with one fancy transition between the two scene I want to include, but I think it'll be okay. Before I thought I could've even do this but it turns out it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 

    I only filmed half of my editing process, which was about 2 hours and 30 minutes, and I made a time lapse of it. I wish I could've screen recorded it but I wasn't sure how to do that on this PC, so I went for this option instead. 

(Peep the paint on my sweater in the first few seconds)

    There was a few times where I had to change my music and give attention to my dog, but I was pretty on task for most of it. Since the software is so simple, I got the gist of most features off the bat, but I looked at one or two tutorials to understand some things. I imagine I'm going to have to look at a lot more of these videos tomorrow. It was honestly really helpful that ClipChamp has their own channel with tutorials, though. Often times, online things like this have tutorials but they tend to be out of date or confusing, but the ones I watched were easy to follow. 

    I didn't have many issues but one. It was TOO short. When I finished putting in all the clips I intended to use at first, I ended up having 1 minute and 30 seconds. I panicked a little bit here, so I went to ask one of my old Group #1 members, Arantza, for some advice. She told me that our teacher had suggested to make use of the maximum of two minutes in their entirity, which I understood, but was stumped on what to do. Luckily, I figured I still had to include the production logo and some extra scenes I had.

    This actually ended up turning out pretty well for me because not only did I simplify my production logo to something more simple (which I liked better since my old one kind of looked like a perfume label)

    And as for the including some other shots, I'm glad I did. When I filmed the first scene, I thought that her rummaging through multiple bags was going to be too long, worried that the video as a whole would be over the limit, but it turns out I was way under the limit. So not only did I have footage to fill what was missing, but I think it also made it more believable since she goes through multiple bags before getting to the last one instead of it seeming like she got a magical feeling to choose the last one and actually find something in it. 

    I ended up ending with 1 minutew 53 seconds after this process, which isn't ideal, but I didn't have much more to include that wouldn't appear to messy or out of place. I figured that it'd be better to be 7 seconds short than to cram things into  it reducing the flow of the film opening. I'm hoping that with the small transition I'm going to add, it'll turn out at least 1 or 2 seconds longer, but I'm not too mad with my results right now. 

    All in all, I'm pretty happy with today's editing process and I'm excited to finish it tomorrow so I can finally get to my CCR and have enough time for it. 

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