Editing Day #2
After some progress on editing yesterday, it's time to finish up my editing. Today my goal is to put in the sound and music, add the credits and title, and fix any transitions or mistakes to make sure it turns out good. Like mentioned in my last post, I hope the transition I'm adding puts a few more seconds to my time, and if not I'll try and extend or add SMALL extra scenes in.
This time, I didn't take a time lapse of me editing, solely because I felt like it'd look pretty identical to the last one, but I'm going to be going over each step of today's final process. his time editing took me 3 hours, so a bit more than yesterday.
First I started by checking all the clips once more, making sure they were all in place. Which they were! So first step gone right already.
Then I went into music. For copyright free music, I used Epidemic Sound, which required account creation. I didn't mind because I felt like it was the best choice for the quality of what I heard. After going through some songs for the first half I was left with three choices. And after some advice from my mom and friend, we all agreed that the pacing and vibe for the song "Starfall" by Roots and Recognition was the best choice. There's not much else to say about sound but the fact that I really didn't think I'd have to use that many sound effects, but as I started using them, I saw how it enhanced the feel of the product. So to my surprise, I ended up using quite a few, for things such as footsteps, slamps, and other sound effects.
After watching some tutorials on how to put text, photo, and edit sound, I found that editing was a much easier job than I thought it'd be. Did it take me a sum of 5 hours to edit a 2 mintue clip? Yes. But as my first time doing something like this, I found that I did it decently well. I almost found it fun, too. Who would've thought?
Though, I didn't do it alone. Every so often I asked opinions of my friends and family. Such as "What do you think of this hue?" or "What do you think of this font for the credits?" Because though the responsibility of this project is on me, I also found it important to hear opinions from others to know what an outside perspective thinks of something I'm making.
I felt like shedding a tear when I was done since it took so long, and I'm happy to finally be done with this part. Now onto my next part, which I'm already a bit late for. Let's get going.
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