CCR Post-production

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Post-production was super tedious. The first video I edited was the baking one and I am glad that I edited that first because I got the hardest out of the way. When I put all of my raw footage together, I realized that I was way over the time limit, and I needed to cut down my video by a lot, especially if I wanted to have some time to answer CCR questions 3 and 4 for my second video. Thankfully, I was able to cut my video from 12 minutes to 8, and although it may not seem like a lot, it was progress. 8 was not good enough, though. I needed to cut at least another minute. I decided to leave the video like that until I edited my second video to see how much leverage I had. Aside from timing, my only other obstacle was the smoothness of the overall video. In my CCR production post, I explained that I constantly cut the camera in order to get my footage just right, but the results would be unrewarding in the end. I do wish that I had thought of the jump cuts before I had started filming. It wasn’t until I watched all of the clips together that I realized I had made a really big mistake about not fixing the jump cut when I had the chance. There wasn’t anything I could really do about it other than adding clips in an attempt to hide them. I would have created some transitions, like placing an ingredient in front of the camera and then cutting to me getting another ingredient and placing it in front of the camera as well, but since that didn't occur to me until later, I had to work with what I had. It wasn’t until I watched all of the clips together that I realized I had made a really big mistake about not fixing the jump cut when I had the chance. There wasn’t anything I could really do about it other than adding clips in an attempt to hide them, but there were just too many that in my opinion, the video would’ve just looked a lot worse than originally.

When editing my second CCR, I did originally have a lot of jump cuts, but I realize that I could avoid them by including footage of questions which I would write on a whiteboard. I thought that this was a very clever way of saving time while also highlighting the question that I was about to answer without wasting any time by saying them I explained in the production post that I had some additional footage and unfortunately, I was not able to include in the final clip because I wanted the time to be just right. I didn’t want to cut anything for my baking video because I wanted to include the necessary stuff for baking as well and therefore decided to make some changes in my second video. The editing process went a lot more smoothly than from my first video and I was able to achieve what I wanted so I was very happy with both the editing in the footage.