Editing: Learning and plugins

     Today my group had to edit all the scenes we completed filming. Rashawn had already gotten started editing and wanted to show the group a draft. It was a nice start on the footage he had edited already. I critiqued a few of the scenes which had some interesting edits.

    The brightness on some of the edits was very dark and suggested we make it a little brighter. So we could see the track and background. We went through multiple plays until we got the right brightness. One of our plans for the edit was to have my shoes flaming as I run past Alex. However, the flames ended up being weird and complicated to edit. So I suggested to the group we could try electricity effects of some kind since those also have a connotation of speed. So we decided on that and it looked pretty good once edited on. 

After some other suggestions and changes, the software began crashing multiple times. I think it was due to CPU problems from being under stress during rendering the scenes and edits. Once we got back on track and the crashing ceased. 

I started asking Rashawn what software for editing he was using. As I wanted to be able to help him in the future if we ever worked again. He even said he would be able to teach me when he had the time. He also explained to me what plugins were and showed me that there were hundreds of different plugins. I realized at that moment how rigorous editing work can be.

    A few minutes after our conversation the software we were using started crashing again. We even started to think the file got corrupted meaning we would have lost all our edited work. Which would have been a major setback. However, we luckily lost some of the footage from the crashes. In the end, Rashawn said when he got home he would redownload the software hoping it would fix our issues.




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