As I watched many other people's videos today, I had to say I really enjoyed watching them. Maybe we're not as good as professional video editors, and perhaps many of our cameras were set too low for interviews, but as students who just learned to do things like this, many of us at least made the first step.
One thing I want to note here is that the editing process is really fun, but it took longer than I thought. I knew that a beginner like me would take a lot longer to complete one piece, but I didn't expect that even the software I used would give me a hard time.
I decided to use iMovie to edit my first piece because Finalcut seemed too complicated to me. But when I was ready to edit my footage, I realized that all my videos were playing twice in speed. All the badminton players, as well as all the people talking in my video, all looked like hyper cartoon characters. I couldn't figure out why, so I uploaded again. However, it didn't make any difference. After doing some research on it, I realized that iMovie'08 didn't work well with my camera. Yes, not any Panasonic camera, but the specific type of Panasonic camera that I was using.
Thanks to my boyfriend, who downloaded a new version of iMovie for me, I was finally able to play my raw footage in a normal speed.
I didn't face too many difficulties when I was actually editing the video since I wrote down a complete rundown with separated video and audio elements, and a transcript for my voiceover.
Like other people said, video editing could be very frustrating and time-consuming, but when the work was done, I really felt that all the efforts were worth it. It doesn't matter if the video looks professional itself, but just the feeling of achieving something is good enough to keep a smile on my face.
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