Editing Report

EDITING REPORT

Once filming was complete, it was time for editing. I imported the footage from my micro sd HD card and this went directly in to Adobe Premiere to edit. I learnt from my teacher the importance of rendering footage. We then saved the footage on an external hardrive and labeled it so we knew which was which. Initially, I didn’t  “Render” but my teacher told me the importance of rendering. Rendering helped us make all the layers of footage into one layer (called a Frame) and make those flash one after the other. Streaming in HD, which I was doing for my opening two minutes, needed more time for rendering.

Once the footage was uploaded, I started to label my clips and add them to the “timeline” before we started my rough edit. A rough edit is all the shots put together witout any music or any sound effects or titles. This gave me a rough building block of what I had to do and I advanced from there. It also gave me time to watch each clip and evaluate which was the best.

After our rough edit was complete I started to add titles. As it was only Angus and I who contributed to the creation of the film, I had to make up fake names just so it would be conventional of an opening two minutes. After the titles were made and the font chosen, we made the fine edit. The fine edit pays greater attention to the film, and cuts are made cleaner and invisible editing is more advanced. Next was the sound edit, this was when I chose the music from a website called the FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE. I also chose Foley effects from freesound.org and then uploaded it to YouTube.

My problems I had with editing was dealing with a shaky cam. Luckily I came across this effect called Warp Stabilizer, which transformed this problem. It worked a treat in keeping the shots less shaky. I found this problem to take greater effect when I am filming Angus walking while I am walking backwards. The shot looks more like a tracking shot. Here is where you can find warp stabilizer in Adobe Premiere:

Here is a screen shot of my editing suite in Adobe Premiere. In this shot, I am working on the dialogue and the cut where I switch angels in the same room to make this shot more 

interesting.