I made a blog post a couple weeks ago, creating a schedule for myself. When I made myself the schedule, I thought it would be very straight forward and easy to follow on time. However, not everything always goes according to plan.
I have been extremely busy lately, with personal things, school assignments and homework, and extra practices from my extracurricular activities since competition season is coming up soon. On my schedule, I was hoping to be editing this week already, maybe even finishing editing by this week, but because of my busy schedule, I haven't even finished recording yet.
Pre-Editing:
You might be thinking that I should just film the second half of my project and then start editing, but I'm also out of town, so I can't necessarily film here. However, I did bring my computer with me, to make sure I can finish my blogs and get other work done. One thing I can do on my computer right now is edit. I know I said I can't edit because I haven't finished filming my second half of my project yet, but I have an idea.
Basically, it's preparing for once I'm ready to fully begin to edit and it can also help me gage how I should film my ending portion. I'll elaborate more later on in the blog.
Starting the Pre-Editing:
I started by emailing myself the clips I had already recorded in the woods. I've had some bad past experiences when trying to connect my phone directly to my PC, so now I just email myself the clips I filmed.
However, this time, some of the video clips were on the longer side, so I had to cut them down and shorten them before sending them. This was because there is a limit on how big a video can be when you send something on email. Thankfully, this was pretty quick to do and wasn't at all a burden.
After downloading all the videos off my email and saving them onto my PC, I opened my editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro, and I imported all of the clips into the platform.
Once I imported all of my content. It didn't take me too long to realize I had a ton of content and clips. Too much almost. So the very first thing I did was look through every single clip repeatedly.
All I was doing was thinking to myself over and over again, "is this clips really necessary", "do I really need this clip". Honestly, this technique really helped me eliminate a decent amount of clips that weren't really that useful or needed.
Almost Editing:
I didn't really want to switch my pre-editing stage that I made up into a real editing stage, so I didn't actually cut down any clips yet. This is because I know that once I finish filming, I'm going to have a completely different idea and I would've thrown a lot of work in the trash.
Instead, I decided to just stay with the idea of helping my future self by making sure I only had the necessary materials and clips I would need in the future editing stage. What would also help me is deciding what clips go where in the video, so I also set this time to create a short timeline and put every clip in chronological order and fit them in where they were needed.
After this, I squished all the clips together. Obviously, I knew that I was going to change it up when I get to the real editing stage, so I didn't want to put too much work in, however, I did try to cut some parts of the clips. For example, on a couple clips, you could see the camera tilt downwards at the very end while I was trying to end the recording. In that case, I just edited that out because no matter what I wouldn't want that in.
I was trying to do my best editing possible without actually editing. This was because I wanted to get as close as possible to the actual time stamp so I could know around how much footage I would have to film for my second half,
In the picture below, you can see that when the clips are smooshed together, they add up to over a minute. Obviously, like I said before, the beginning scene won't be anywhere near that long since I haven't cut out everything I've wanted to yet and I haven't edited anything.
Eurolanguage. “Pre-Editing: What Is It, and Where Will It Lead? - Eurolanguage - Translation.” Eurolanguage, Eurolanguage Https://Www.eurolanguage-Translations.com/Wp-Content/Uploads/2018/09/Uebersetzungsbuero-Eurolanguage.png, 30 Aug. 2021, https://www.eurolanguage-translations.com/en/pre-editing-en/.
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