Spring break was incredible. I did great at my MUN conference and went on an amazing road trip to Charleston, South Carolina. However, I definitely slacked a little on moving forward with my project, but I can say editing is in progress. This post goes through how I began editing the film opening.
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Starting any edit is a daunting process. Seeing that blank editing screen really puts the amount of work I need to do into reality. This image shows my favorite format to edit videos on Premiere. I keep it mostly default, but I make sure the timeline is zoomed in a lot because I like to be able to see and work with as much of the clips as I can. For this edit in particular, I will leave the graphics tab open so that I can easily add titles and credits.
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This photo pretty much describes my experience editing with Premiere. It is a powerful editing software, so it often causes my computer's tiny processor to crash a lot... and I mean A LOT. So much so I literally have to save my work every five minutes. I would hate for an hour of work to disappear (which has happened an overwhelming amount of times)
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Now is the time to start putting the clips on the timeline. At this time I go through each clip in chronological order and double click so I can do some quick trimming (in the top right corner)
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With all my clips on the timeline, so much work is now to be done. Layering of audio, connecting the clips in a cohesive manner, color correction, adding text, and so much more. So I guess this is what I'm going to say, I got some work to do! I'm so excited to see how this turns out and I hope you are too!
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