Monday, September 16, 2024

BLOG QUESTION: EDITING FIRST STEPS

You've just begun your journey into editing! How does it feel to take your first baby steps? What are three things that surprise you? What are you finding difficult?
It feels a bit overwhelming and I feel a bit slow because I haven't memorized the shortcuts yet. However, I'm really excited to grow my skills and the overall process (choosing clips, re-ordering them, adding music, etc.) isn't totally new to me, so I'm looking forward to expanding my skills on them and experimenting with my style. One thing that surprised me was all the resources we have to make a good edit. From SFX, music, and visual effects, there's many things you can add to enhance your edit.  Another thing that surprised me is how relaxing it is to edit. I already edited videos in my free-time for fun, so I know it can be entertaining and keep you busy, but I thought editing on an actual program would be a lot more stressful. Finally, the last thing that surprised me was how detailed you can get when editing. I found it helpful that you could move from frame to frame to choose the exact time you wanted to cut your shot, which is really helpful. Right now, I'm having difficulty working fast while editing as I haven't memorized all the shortcuts, and I want to as soon as possible so I can spend less time manually dragging/clicking stuff.

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