Editing Blog: Combining the Clips

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 Welcome back everyone to another blog! After many days of filming, I will finally be able to start the editing now. I've been anticipating this as all this filming can  make me a little weary. However, editing is arguably my favorite part, so I'm glad I can do something I am good at.  To begin, I figured I'd primarily use a program I am familiar with - Capcut. I'll probably end up mixing several different programs as I continue down the editing process, but for now this program will do. For the beginning process, all I did was put the clips together. This is one of the easiest steps, but obviously crucial to the rest of the editing. If the base of the video is not properly combined, then I won't have a strong foundation to build upon. I spent about 2 or 3 hours reviewing the clips, putting them together, going back, shortening, and so on. I had already swiped through which clips might work best, but now that I was actually editing, I reviewed them again to see if some of them might not properly fit into one another. I had to shorten them to the perfect amount while ensuring the cut was not too strange. I did not start transitions today, but I will be doing that in my next editing blog. The beginning clips were most likely the most difficult to edit as I wasn't sure how paced I should make them. Additionally, though I wasn't doing it today, I was also looking for title placements. I did this early on in the process because I knew that the titles would have to be displayed for a certain amount of time on the screen, and if the clip was not the proper length, this might be affected. I was worried that I might change my mind later about how I combined the clips, but I realized hat this was inevitable and worst case scenario I'd have to go back and fix it. Once all the clips were combined, I tried to meet the 2 minute mark, though left it slightly over the mark. This was because I knew that once I added transitions, the time would shorten ever so slightly each time. All the seconds would add up and reduce the video enough to the 2 minutes required. And that's all for today! Until the next one.


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