ginnydi

hi! not dead

Added 2022-06-10 21:48:40 +0000 UTC

I feel like I used to post a lot more general behind-the-scenes stuff, and lately I've been so overwhelmed that I've kind of stopped! I'm working on an edit for a video that took me more than two weeks to film (oof!) and just wanted to give you a little peek behind the curtain.

This is Adobe Premiere, where I edit all my video. What you see in the lower right here (the timeline) is a finished intro section, segueing into part one, which is partially edited (rough clips, titles, effects, but no music yet.)

I've recently started timing my work to get a better idea of how to schedule myself more realistically, and my current estimate for the average complete edit is 8-12 hours. I'm only about an hour and a half into this one, and I suspect it will be on the upper end of that bracket, mostly just because filming dialogue outdoors was ROUGH and for every clean, successful line, I probably have about 5 full minutes of unusable footage, and I have to sift through all that to find the good clips.

I'm not feeling great about my work right now, which is affecting how I'm viewing this one — I told Josh earlier "I scripted the intro under the assumption that my footage would look cool, but it's not really working because my footage looks stupid" 😅 But I'm sure I'll come around to it by the end!