Editing makes me dreadful but also pretty cool

     Ok, I've started editing my CCR's! which has been pretty cool.

    But, I'm not here to explain my enjoyment... I'm here to talk about my editing strategy!

How it feels to talk about my editing strategy

    I'm not going to discuss the basic editing techniques I use. But, the more advanced one's that like are unique to my CCR's specifically.

    For both CCR's, whenever I finish the radio edit (the full project with just me talking(no pictures yet)), I add the pictures(no duh). But, sometimes pictures look unproffessional, so, something I have learned from my television production classes involves using blur, scale keyframes, and dissolve transititions to make pictures look more proffessional. Here's how I do it.

    I add two of the same clip on top of one another on the timeline. The picture on the bottom has the "gaussian blur effect". The picture on the bottom is also scaled up so it fills the entire frame.

    

Here's what it looks like

    Next, the top clip is keyframed. It depends on preference, but, the pictures alternate from a larger to smaller scale, or vice versa.

Da keyframes

    Next, I add some transitions between pictures(cross fades) and then done!

One frame of the final product

    In addition to these clips, I've also used pull/push transitions between clips for style.

    Anyways, that's enough rambling for me today. I hope you've enjoyed my rambling. If you didn't, I don't really care. This is just me explaining my editing process, which has been pretty chill and unchallenging. Sooooo yeah, peace!