First Editing Blog

 Today is a very exciting day. It is the first day of editing for my group. The first thing done was picking out all the clips in the editing software. The software is called CapCut and is the same software that's been used in all of the projects. This process was fairly easy as the clips were selected during filming. However at this point the video was way too long. It went past 2:00 minutes which meant it had to be cut down. After some trimming of unnecessary parts it was time to add in the jump cuts. This was confusing because there were many different parts to be put together. A lot of the clips also looked alike which made it even more difficult. This took a little while but with the help of the group everyone was able to get through it. After this it was time to work on sound. The first part of sound was to make sure everyone's voices could be heard. The sound levels in all the clips were different so they were leveled and matched up. After that the soundtrack was put in. I had no idea how to download it so I asked the group for help. Everyone talked and came up with the conclusion to just screen record the song playing on YouTube. This solution actually worked very well. Once the soundtrack was added the level of our voices had to be edited again. At this point the entire movie was shown to everyone in the group an it was deemed good enough for now even though it wasn't perfect. 



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