Production Blog 4: Editing

I downloaded Clipchamp for my editing software. The video shown is a screen recording of me downloading, naming, and exporting the raw footage of my music video. The reason it is sped up is because the actual time it took for me to figure out Clipchamp was about 10 minutes. At first, I was a bit confused as to why my video was so choppy when there was a transition between two clips. I thought the problem would resolve itself if I just exported my video as it was, so I tried to do that. Clipchamp actually showed a pop-up saying that I hadn't fixed the gaps. Instead of saving the video anyways, I went back to the video editing. I then noticed that if I right-clicked on the visible gaps between clips, there was an option to delete them. Once I deleted each gap, the video wasn't choppy and was smooth. One thing I like about Clipchamp is that it is a very user-friendly software. By user-friendly, I mean that they offer help in-app if they detect something that could be wrong with the video. In other words, Clipchamp doesn't assume that whoever is using it has been editing for years and therefore knows the ins and outs of the software. I also appreciate that I can cut individual clips in Clipchamp while editing. Usually, I have to cut the individual clips in my phone and then put the pre-cut clips into a software. The only thing I have left to figure out is how to apply a layer of music over the video and cancel out the original video's diegetic sound. I don't have any reservations about this, since I researched Clipchamp prior to downloading it, and there are a lot of helpful videos online. Overall, I am happy with how my project is coming along and look forward to seeing my final product.


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