I have had a long-lasting interest in editing throughout my life but wasn't entirely sure on what I could edit or why I would even do it, so for a few years Sony Vegas has just been sitting on my computer and I didn't know the full extent of its capabilities, which are actually quite extensive if you put the time in to learn them. There were three big tools I learned during the editing process: presets, masking, and using stereoscopic 3D adjust. I will explain all of these the best I can here, however, this will be covered more in-depth in my CCR as I will be able to record myself using these tools and talking over it so it will be easier to show visual examples while explaining. Firstly, presets allow you to be able to add an effect to a clip, adjust the effect settings, and save it as your own sub-effect. For example, say you wanted to place text that says "example", turn it pink and place it in the corner. You would add your text, customize it as you would like, and save that as a preset. So why is this important? Well, say you wanted to place this same exact text in another frame. If you place a text box on it, it is going to say "Sample Text" and you'll have to customize it all over again.. unless you use the preset. If you click on the preset you saved it will put the exact text from the other frame on this one, and you got it! I used this tool for color correction, saving a preset of the exact adjustments to tint and lighting I made on the first clip and applying it to all the other clips so I wouldn't have to redo it every clip, and I made adjustments as I went, as clearly some shots were brighter than others so it was necessary to adjust the lighting and tint accordingly. There is a part where I used this, when Lionel is getting up off the bed and the text "Music by Lucas King" is revealed from behind him as he walks, giving the illusion it is actually behind him. To do this, I used the masking tool to create a clipping of the video around the text, and dragged the anchor points over the text, blocking it with the video. I made slight frame by frame adjustments to this so it would reveal more and more as he walked away. Lastly, the stereoscopic 3D adjust. This is an interesting tool, as it allowed me to use a glitch effect I put at the end of my title sequence for the title card. In order to use this, I had to duplicate my video track in the spots I wanted the glitch to occur and place a color bar track over top of them. From here I had to add numerous effects such as pixelation and vertical/horizontal disalignment to the bars and change the project properties to fit the effect. This is very difficult to explain in words, so my CCR will talk more about this one. I would say overall I improved greatly at editing as I am now more familiar with using multiple video and audio tracks (this video had 31) and I am also more familiar with certain effects I previously knew nothing about, along with a better ability to use keyframing, which simply allows me to make frame to frame adjustments with a clip. Youtube tutorials helped me greatly with the glitch effects and masking, as well as some other aspects such as using chroma keyer to green screen text onto the clip to blend it a certain way. I will link the videos that helped me most with the whole editing process.
Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wq7mCKpOK4&list=WL&index=2&t=260s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgAf9TnZj8Q&list=WL&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MSPeYydErc&t=331s
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