Video Editing Practice Blog Reflection

 Video Editing Practice Blog Submission

Within the last few days, our media studies class has been working through developing familiarity with Adobe Premiere Pro and how to use it.

The learning process consisted of learning to access the application through the cloud, watching a series of videos demonstrating various exercises and techniques within the app, and actually practicing what it is that the man demonstrated in the video. 

A challenge I faced was learning the keys and shortcuts to actually delete things, so to get rid of them I would layer them or lower their volume instead. Finding where it is that you were editing is also dreadful, because you either need to grab the blue marker and drag it, which it does very rapidly, or you need to scroll with the scroll wheel, which is unnecessarily time consuming.

    I also had an initial problem with accidentally layering the video/excessive sound from different videos, but once I had gotten it to a way that I was satisfied with, I liked the way it had turned out and as a result I used it conventionally and repeated the process, so I classify it as a partial success. Additionally, when I didn't know how to find the icon to begin where you wanted to clip the video, and the default only included how to finish your clip selection, I had replaced one of the default icons with the icon marking to begin the clip selected instead.

Some parts of this process, as you can likely tell, were essentially self improvised, but ended up working in my improvised way due to lack of elaboration in certain areas within the video that weren't specified or instructed how to do. I also actually wasn't aware that it could be longer than 45 seconds, so I cut and shortened some clips under the impression that it adamantly had to be exactly 45 seconds.

Throughout the process of completing this clip I learned how to import and export media, how to create projects, and how to select multiple files and drag/move them. I will apply this to future projects using Adobe Premiere Pro, and if I choose to do a 2-minute film opening for my final project, becoming familiar with the application would be especially convenient because it is one of the very few applications that are actually acceptable to use for editing on your film opening. 

I was pretty content with my video practice, and there are few things I would change if I had the chance to, with the exception of learning how to better blend my audio so that shifts in them wouldn't be so abrupt. It's a bit choppy at the end because I was trying to make the 45-second timeframe, but I attempt avoid extreme criticism, as it is still the first time. I tried to do a documentary-style clip by shifting between the interviews and clips, and I was ultimately satisfied, as it certainly could have been worse.