It’s time to talk about Editing! Get it? It’s time to talk about Kevin? Because in the film Kevin is incredibly frustrating and hurts people who care about him? Replace the name Kevin in that sentence with editing, and there is truly no difference. Truthfully I do enjoy editing, but it is a bit tedious, and more than a bit frustrating when things do not go as planned. Daniel came over to my house today to edit the film with me, I named all the night before he arrived. I didn’t realize however that the clips from the gun scene had no audio when played on my desktop, and when I improved them into premiere pro it had audio but no video! We were so confused and tried just about everything we could, yet nothing worked. Daniel even called window’s help line and cursed out Bill Gates when they said we’d have to pay to skip the one hour wait time). Finally I thought that maybe converting the files to a different format would help. I converted a file (which took five minutes), imported it into premiere, and it worked! Thank you mp4! Because the 23 files we needed each took so long to convert (one took 20 minutes), we decided to start the claymation scene first. After the time reached 8 pm, we then decided that I’d finish converting the clips for the gun scene and put them in order, and together during class we’d edit it during class.
We did end up finishing editing the claymation scene aside from color correcting (which we also will finish in class). Daniel is a color correcting guru. It was a really fantastic experience seeing us both work off of each others strengths and weaknesses throughout the entire process of the project. Since I had named the clips before we imported them into premiere, the entire process was so much simpler. During class this whole week Daniel and I had looked through our clips and deleted the ones which we were not going to use (the best out of two shots, shots where Jessica said her line wrong, etc), which also made the editing process easier.
We already had a selection of music which we intended to use for this particular scene, yet after placing them over the near-finished product we decided none of them worked. We continued our quest until we found the perfect song. We never intended our song for this scene to have a psychedelic feel to it, however when placed over the other video/audio tracks it made perfect sense. The colors we intended to emphasize within our set and costume choices seemed even brighter and more noticeable with this song complementing it.
The audio of the video clips themselves gave us a bit of trouble though. Even the separate audio which we recorded with my iPhone did not sound the best, and static could be heard in the background. However with the use of audio key framing, we were able to keep the original audio attached to the video clips, and when the music track was laid over it, the audio actually sounds decent. Thank you key framing!
Until next post,
Nicole Abuid
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