On December 2nd and 4th in my AICE Media Studies class, I began working on the editing process for my music video. I was extremely excited for this part of making the music video since I love putting all the clips together and adding transitions and other little details. Editing is by far my favorite part of the process as you get to watch as all of your hard work comes together to make one cohesive, finished product. When doing the commercial project I had a lot of fun editing and have had just as much fun editing the music video so far. Due to this being my second time editing a video, I had more experience and knowledge on how to edit and use the software, which is Pinnacle Studio. This was really useful as it made editing the music video a lot easier and less time consuming. I had also chosen to spend a few minutes in the beginning of class on December 2nd to plan out how we would edit and in what order. I decided to do this so that I would have a clear idea of what to do, that way I couldn’t forget any steps when editing. It also ensured that I would finish editing in time for the date it is due. Overall, it was a very helpful and important decision to take the time to plan.
On December 2nd, I came into class and immediately got to work making a plan. After that was finished, I used an SD card reader to dump the footage from my SD card onto the laptop with the editing software so I could start. This thankfully did not take very long and soon enough I was loading up Pinnacle Studio where I would be editing the footage. However, when first loading the software up, it repeatedly crashed and wasted a significant amount of time. We were luckily able to fix the unexpected issue by eventually restarting the laptop. With the issue resolved, I quickly got to work moving all the footage that I wanted to use into the software to edit. Meanwhile, I had my group mate download the song we had chosen so that we could match the audio to the footage while editing. After both the music and footage were on the software, I began to place the clips in order so that it would be easier to find each clip since we had a lot of them. Referencing the storyboard we had previously made while doing this made it significantly less difficult as I could clearly see the order that they should be in. I then spent the rest of the period editing down clips to fit with the timing of the song.
On December 4th, I continued to work on my music video with the help of my group mate. I had already planned to do a certain part of the music video that I knew would take a lot of time to complete so I immediately got to work on editing it. The scene involved a lot of small clips that had to be edited down to fit very specific audio cues. This was pretty stressful at first as there were a large amount of clips which got overwhelming at times, but as I continued it got easier and more enjoyable. I thankfully had no significant issues on the second day apart from the software just being pretty slow in general. However, I had taken that into consideration while making the plan since I had remembered the problem from the previous video project. Therefore, I was able to accomplish what I had hoped to finish during the class period. I have one more class period to work on the project before it is due and I’m confident that it will be finished in time with the progress we have made so far. All in all, the editing process has been quite enjoyable for the most part when I was not stressed about whether I would be able to finish in time or not. It has been very educational and has really helped me with learning to manage my time for certain processes.
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