Remember Daniel? - Post Production

Finally finished editing! 2 days of editing and editing is finally finished and I am more than relieved to be done. I am more than happy with the final product.

Editing took longer than I expected but it was all worth it in the end, uploading and basic editing was fairly simple on Adobe Premiere until I got to the elevator part, basically I made the mistake in filming handheld and then trying to edit it, which proved almost impossible, so I had to go back and film a couple of shots using the tripod. The reason I originally used a handheld shot was because it was a POV of Daniel leaving the elevator into a new location, but I couldn’t edit it. So using the tripod it would be stable but I wouldn’t actually leave the elevator on the shot so to do this I would need to zoom the original shot into the different location ... All very confusing I know. However this still couldn’t be done using Adobe Premiere, so I had to use Adobe After Effects to edit. In the end I created the right feel and the viewer got the impression that they had been transported but it still looked quite rough.

Elevator Transport on Adobe After Effects

 I chose to make the whole video in which when you annotate, you skip to a different part of the video rather than be redirected to another link, it makes the experience a lot easier and runs smoother for the interactive viewer. I also chose to add titles within the exported video on Adobe Premiere so that when it came to editing, it was as simple as circling the words and annotating, and i also had a wide range of font’s and sizes than on YouTube.

I enjoyed editing this as editing is something i can get lost in, i can get into the mind set of editing fairly quick and stay focused for long periods of time and this is something you need to do when creating this type of video, as it requires 100% concentration. It can be extremely frustrating to upload your video to youtube to find you missed a piece of text or audio and have to go all the way back, then export it over again and re-upload it to YouTube, so i was very reassured that i had done each part of the video correctly before uploading it.

Using Adobe Premiere

YouTube annotating went as smoothly as possible, i have never experienced many problems through annotation and i think the more thorough you are through editing you easier it is to annotate, and this is something i was prepared for with the way in which i edited. It was a little bit time-consuming because i had more annotations than i had before when using this method, but all in all it went as smooth as expected and i was extremely satisfied with my work.

YouTube Annotating

 

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