Editing Blog: Peer Review

Hey everyone, its me again. Today is gonna be all about some of my process while editing. As mentioned in the last blog, I started editing by combining all the clips together. The next step, was to review everything and add transitions where they were needed. Most of the scenes did not need much editing in terms of a transition as they were filmed in a manner to transition smoothly. In addition to this, many of the cuts were jumpcuts. This was done to keep in line with the horror genre. Once all the basics of editing was finished for the base video, I exported it and sent it to a friend for a peer review. Yasmin and I sent it to two different people to see what should have been fixed. In my case, the person who reviewed the video thought that the shift between the second to last clip and the last clip was too quick. The transition is smooth and the cut isn't that noticeable. However, the pacing is off compared to the rest of the video. At first, I thought this was a simple fix. Just fade the first scene to black and have the next scene fade in from black. This would create a quick buffer since the actual clips end in black. But, when it came to actually editing it, nothing was going according to plan. I even tried to insert an image of a black screen in between the clips so it would stay dark for longer, but it would not work. In the end, I decided I would probably need to use another program to help the fade last longer as Capcut was not properly cooperating in this aspect. I decided to make this adjustment after I finished some of the other baseline edits, however, as I wanted to make sure it was one of the final visual edits I made. This way, I wouldn't switch too much between programs. And that's all for today! Until the next one, where I'll be working on the titles.