I focused on learning transitions with the help of Rqnsho‘s video.
//I’d love to learn from sources other than the official NCH website or YouTube tutorial videos, but I guess VideoPad isn’t a super popular program; that or it is believed to just be super user-friendly. I dunno if I’d say its super user-friendly, but messing with settings/tools does help to figure stuff out.//
I don’t mind learning from videos but I do find myself really struggling to actually watch the video. I put off ‘starting’ with all the force I can muster. Of course this is not my conscious decision, but it is frustrating. I find it easier to ‘accidentally’ learn from written sources since I don’t know when the learning will begin so I start reading and then get sucked in to the flow of the text and learn. I know the learning begins instantaneously with most videos, so I just don’t press play. //I know that sounds insane to people not in my brain, I also think it is insane.//
Before this week, there were only a few instances where I tried to use transitions but decided not to like any of them and edited my own with the video effects/tools (ie. motion tool to manually move clips frame by frame). This week I put them all to the test, in this video, to see if I like any of them or if I will be editing each frame with the motion tool like before.
There were a few transitions that didn’t wanna work, probably because the clips are so short. This is good to know, since I plan on editing quick transitions between short clips.
Most of the pre-set transitions have to freeze-frame each clip (most of the time from frames before and/or after the clip, which is frustrating because I chose frames specifically to cut at for my desired result) which just isn’t my style– it just makes a sort of static vibe, makes it stop, kills the flow.
//the freeze-frame stealing extra frames than what I gave them frustrates me to no end because it forces the edit to include scene cuts from the actual movie and so it looked funky. It also made it tricky to see what cuts/transitions were from the movie and from myself/the transitions.//
When editing, I noticed the clips seem to need to be overlapped for the transition to look right, but that results in weird clip transitions or it is just not something I can do within the program. I may play around more with this idea.
Playing with clip/transition duration will also change results, and I will definitely have to tweak durations for the actual edit(s), but for this I thought it best to standardize everything for ‘uniform’ results.
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