As I progress through Aice Media Studies, I was recently introduced to Premiere Pro, an editing software that enables creativity and limitless possibilities through its numerous tools and features. To understand the basics of the software, I first watched videos provided by The Academy of Scholastic Broadcasting that walked me through on how to use crucial tools that provide a foundation of editing. These videos included tutorials on every step of the progress even before even editing in the software. Tutorials from showing how to prepare media and adjusting audio to exporting a edit correctly.
While watching the tutorials, I was following along to explore the software for myself and play around with it to get myself more familiar. As I followed along, I understood how to prepare media and organize clips to ensure an easy process while transitioning to editing. I was able to learn how to locate my clips, organize the types of media into groups and edit it before putting it into a timeline. This made things easier as I went along through tutorials as creating new sequences, making edits on a timeline and putting text to efficiently use lower thirds.
Creating the clip was overall fun since I was able to see my vision for the video come to life. Deciding what parts of B-Roll I wanted to use to cover cuts between interviews was entertaining while it allowed me to be creative and connect clips to the actual answers of the customers. I enjoyed adding in audio to create a welcoming fun and playful tone in my video. Adding the audio in the beginning and the ending made my video feel more complete. Throughout the process it took patience while I had trial and errors.
These trial and errors took place while I was still learning to get comfortable with the software. While creating my clip, I had some challenges especially when it came to tiny details. Some of these challenges included understanding how to manipulate audio so that the sound and focus on certain clips stood out more than others. I also had trouble understanding sequences at first as I didn't understand the point, but then after adding another sequence I saw that it helped to break up the editing process so that everything is less complicated. Lastly, as for challenges, I wanted to add cleaner transitions and time them properly, but my custom timing would not work. Moving forward, I want to learn how to get more familiar with the timings and the types of transitions I can use in a timeline so that I can create a smoother video overall.
Despite the challenges that came along with creating the clip, I had many successes. Many of these successes had to do with my approach to the fundamentals. The use of B-roll specifically was fun to use as I was able to use overlapping to create smooth transitions between interviews and clips used to show what the interviews were talking about. This was able to make my clip seem much more cohesive overall. I also was able to use the organization folders that the tutorials had suggested to create. These folders helped organize my media and overall have a smoother process.
Altogether, in future projects I will use my experience with creating this clip to practice and navigate the software faster and more effectively. I will use fundamentals to be able to create the basis for projects in my portfolio and get a better grasp of the different ways I can use it. I will also use this to see and work on the parts of editing I still need to get familiar with so I can later utilize more tools in adobe.
This will help me with my portfolio project while it will support me in major parts of the process of my project. These parts include editing and organizing my media to help me work most effectively when it comes to using the timeline. Not only this but as I make more projects in the software, I will be able to better understand little details that I may want to use in my portfolio project.
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