Editing Blog: Time to Edit Scenes!

October 6th, This was the first day that me and the group had to edit the commercial. In class, I couldn't really edit any scenes since the laptops had run pretty slow and so I worked on my blog first. I had told the others about a plan on how I would first make a raw video with just the cuts of the scenes to match together. One of my group members had put all the scenes in a google drive so I was able to get the clips to use to edit home.

At home, I joined the group call to let the others know that I had started to edit the scenes and how it would look. To edit, I was going to use the program that I use for all the videos I edit, Shotcut. My groupmates have never heard of it and so they wanted references as to what I have edited in the program. I had shown them some YouTube videos that I had made with the program.

I first had to convert the scenes recorded into mp4 files that could work in the software. After that, I started to get all the scenes I had and put them in chronological order. Editing-wise, I started off my by tuning some audio of some parts of the commercial. Some of them needed muting while others needed to lower background noises. Afterwards, I needed to cut some parts of scenes in which there was too much time being taken. The scenes took way too much time than I expected, there is going to have to be a good amount of cuts. While I did do good amount of cuts, there still about 5 seconds more time than the commercial should be.

There was one scene where there had to be a voice from "God" and so I asked Jibril to give me a voiceover. He'd agreed and I was able to record the audio that I needed. I then added it to the commercial and placed it in the audio track where it was well-timed to look as if he were talking to Max in the scene. These were the only major changes that I did for the raw commercial and so I exported it with max quality that Shotcut provided and had showed it to my groupmates.

I plan to edit more things on the video in the next day, adding effects to the background and also music to play. My biggest fear in this editing process is not being able to fit everything in 30 seconds.

This has been my editing blog, thank you for sticking by!



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