Production blog: Editing (part 1)

 We went back to my house after recording and got to work editing! My dad insisted on airdropping all the footage from his phone to my computer. But it didn't work! No matter how many times I told him something wasn't working, he didn't listen and continued his failed attempts. He tried to send an "iCloud link" of one of the longest videos, but it was not downloading fast enough. The trouble with our transfering of videos was that they were way too long. We had fully recorded through the song multiple times. Eventually, my dad brought in a USB drive full of all the footage. I plugged it into my computer. It finally worked!

I uploaded all the videos to iMovie, the editing software I feel most comfortable using. Amelie and Lilly helped cut down all the footage. We used the videos we took in my house at the beginning. We slowly incorporated the videos we later took. We made sure to put everything into chronological order pertaining to the plot. After we lined up every part of the plot and all videos of us playing instruments, we moved on to the inserts. I found a cool new way to add inserts to a clip in iMovie. You can simply drag the smaller clips to their desired place in the video, above the main track. Automatically, it cuts to the clip when it is supposed to and then right back to the main track when the clip is over. 

Syncing up the sound proved to be a tricky. It took many tiny adjustments to get Lilly's lip syncing aligned with the song. But eventually, it worked out and looks great - perfectly synced up!

This was during the editing process!

Such a funny picture of Isaac!!