Something about me is that I generally enjoy editing. It is usually not a chore for me or too strenuous, but somehow this project has made Premiere Pro my personal pit of flame. Okay, maybe I am being a bit dramatic (I definitely am), but I have my reasons.
But before I delve into that, lwts talk about how my team and I are dividing up the editing process. I am what I consider the first station. I am in charge of putting all of the clips together in the correct order and getting all of the timing right. This also includes editing out any mistakes that made it into the shots by accident (spoiler alert: this is what ends me). The next station goes to Rachel. She is the sound god, and what the entails is looking at my edited segments and either find the sounds that suit it or making all the foley sounds. Then, she will send me all the sounds and I will put them in. Then I will send the file over to Max, the title monger. He has been really excited about the credits sequence from the start, so he will just be running wild with that. And then, the final cog in the wheel is Maiya, who is in charge of the stilization of the opening (which is basically just color grading).
Now, this seems like a solid plan doesn't it? Well, you would be right, it is. Right now, we are still in phase one of the editing process. That means that I have been hunched over a computer for several hours trying to get all of this footage in perfect order. I've even got a little time lapse of an hour of me editing, or the alternative title of me slowly going insane.
I do not know if you notices, but there are a few frames where you can see me yelling into the camera. That is how I felt 99% of the time. Crashout core at it's finest.
What I was doing for the majority of this editing segement was editing out a stupid excercise bike that was in the background of one of the shots. I had noticed it during filming but it was essentially unmovable and I needed that location for the shot. "I can just edit it in post," I said. "It'll be fine," I said.
It is fine actually, just a hell of a lot of work. So, using my serious editing expertize (and some youtube videos), I finally figured out how to use the marking tool. But, much to my chagrin, I now had to go frame by frame to edit this exercise bike out. Frame. By. Frame.
One does not realize how short a frame is until they have to go through it over and over again. And I am not even done editing it out. I had to move on from it because it was taking way to long and I wanted to get the rest of the project laid out.
Now I am going to share a before and after, but before I hear any judgement coming from anyone, just know that it isn't finished yet. I've still got some fine tuning to do.
Here is the before...
And here is the after (in progress)...
I know that it doesn't look great, but it's what we got. And I think with some more playing around that I could get it looking alright. I just cannot have that bike in the background because it literally makes no sense. Other than that, the editing is going pretty good. It's nice seeing it all come together. I just need to mess around with some of the other scenes to get the timing right, and then all will be well.
And now for the movie quote of the day...
"I feel bad for her because she's about to cry. I can always tell when adults are about to cry." - Moonee, The Florida Project (2017)
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