Editing is done! PP#21

     Now, remember when I said that I love editing?  Well, I wasn't joking.  

    I've been hard at work for the past couple days, I'd say about 5 days in total, and I've just been hacking at the footage, and I finally have a cohesive piece put together.  The following blog posts after this one are gonna be breaking down some of the aspects in my piece, but for now I'll talk about my overall editing experience.  

    Firstly, editing a two minute film is tough for my computer.  Constant lagging took place, and when you have so much media being inputted into the application, things tend to slow down.  

    Inputting all this media put such huge strain on my computer, and towards the end things really started to slow down.  It started off really nice, since, y'know, there would only be so much media, but adding more and more made the process slower and slower.  

But it was still fun to edit, especially the beginning portion.  This would culminate a slow start, then immediately build up fast.  

    This is the timeline of the beginning, and the white bits are text boxes to introduce the actors, and the green parts are music.  For the blue bits, which is the actual video, I had to overlap and cut major parts of the original video, which is pretty much editing 101.  The real hard part was making sure the audio would still line up when messing around with the clips.  For example, when I would show another clip with audio, the switch to another clip, but still use the same audio, it would be hard to mae the context of the scene match up.  But after some fiddling, I managed to get it down right.  

    This is the timeline of the rest of the opening, which you can see is a lot more extensive than the beginning part.  I had to add more white bits, especially towards the end so I can mention myself!  I put the tags edited by, directed by, produced by, and written by, and then cut to a shot of it saying "Noa Batista"

    Also this part just had generally more clips, obviously, but this meant that there would be overlapping portions since the characters are talking to each other a lot more here.  So the back and forth audio needed to be carried over as the characters would talk to eachother.

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