The Editing Dilemma (I'm scared)

    Editing. You either love it or hate it. I love it, but there is one small issue. That issue is our scheduling. We are supposed to upload two post-production-themed posts by Sunday, and I have not started yet. However, there is a reason for that. To give context on what is going on, for the music video project I did absolutely zero editing. This was because our group member, Grace, is in CBTV and is the most familiar and skilled with professional editing in Adobe Premiere. I really enjoy editing, though, and even though I may not have as much experience I really wanted to be involved in that process for this project. There is something about having separate clips and editing them together into one cohesive video that is just so satisfying to me. I usually take forever to edit, because I learn how things work as I do it which is surprisingly fun. I never stop until it is perfect in my mind, because I am a chronic perfectionist. Before I yap for too much longer, let me explain the dilemma.

    Before we even started the project, I asked if I could be more involved in the post-production process. Grace of course said yes, and then the rest of my group also wanted in on it. This was actually good to hear since editing does take a long time and nobody would have to spend a ton of time on it individually. The only problem with this is there is no group editing feature. The way we decided to handle this was by each member of the group editing the file at a time. So for example, Grace would edit at the beginning, then Rachel, then me, and then finally Maiya. (Imagine how hard this sentence would be to write if I never disclosed their names) The only issue was we underestimated how long it would take to edit. At the time of writing this, I still have not received the file yet. Now don't take this as me complaining about my group members, because I understand how long it can take and don't blame anyone. We all underestimated the time it would take us to edit our individual parts and thought we would easily have it done by the end of this weekend. That has turned out to not be the case.

    So here is what I will do for the post-production posts instead. For the rest of this post, I will explain each of our members' roles in the post-production process. Grace is editing the general project together. So far, she is pretty much finished. Rachel is focusing on all of the audio elements. I will be focusing on the credit sequence and trying to achieve that Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) credit effect I have been yapping about for so long now. It looks very difficult, but I love learning new editing techniques so it's fine and I will try my best. Maiya will be focusing on the lighting aspect of the whole project. So far Grace has pretty much finished her part, so she has sent it to Rachel. Once Rachel is done, then Grace will get it back and quickly finish up her part and send it over to me. Once I am done, I will send it over to Maiya, and after she is done Grace will look over it with her CBTV expertise and make any tweaks that are needed. I assure you, mine will be so good she won't even need to change any of it. I hope. (It looks scary, I'm scared.)

    

Here are some time-lapses of Grace editing in the meantime:

    Next post I will detail my learning process on how to achieve that credit effect. It will surely be an arduous process, but I will not let that stop me! (It is so over for me)