Vertigo in China from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo.
Over the weekend I started replying to craigslist post for video editors. You know, editing film/video/tv/web junk – whatever. I need practice and I need to work on something other than my absolutely awesome home music videos! While something paying was hardly what I was going for – I went with the free (unpaid!) gig and now it looks like I’ll be working on editing episodes of a web series filmed here in Atlanta (there are many.)
So that’ll be cool if it works out and I actually get to work on that.
I’ve been editing these videos and stringing them together since we got back from China last April – it mostly started out because I had taken some video and wanted to show it to our friends/family – but we didn’t want to just throw it up on a screen and hit play. Because as interesting as our trip was – it’s not like you wanna watch hours of raw video of us walking down the street or eating… (you may think you do – but no, you really don’t.) So I started cutting clips and stringing them together in time with music – well, mostly in time.
But then it got to be really time consuming. My process just wasn’t fast and if I wanted to throw in a series of fast cuts, in time with the music, it got to be a big deal and it would take me much too much time to finish any video. Eventually I stumbled upon a way to pre-cut the music and leave markers in time with the music so that I basically just had to drop clips into the pre-defined boxes and I was done. It cut down a process that was an all day affair down to 2 hours. The earlier process was to visually make cuts while looking at the sound wave peaks – which can get to be really slow – compared to just hitting the ‘cut’ button like it’s a drum while I listen to the music.
Of course – editing for a storyline is a little different – since you have to deal with the narrative and pacing and tone and other junk like that y’know. Still. It’ll be fun.
These two videos were made a year apart and although it might not seem like there was a lot of progress between them… there was.
Birthday 30 X 2 from LeahAndMark.com on Vimeo.
Still Learning.