I chose to review YouTube’s editor and an editor called JayCut. I was very excited to learn YouTube’s editor but when I got into it I was not impressed. It took me about 45minutes to actually find it and when I did the tutorial was not working. I went in anyway and spent about 30minutes trying to figure it out only to discover I could not upload within the editor I had to have uploaded video into YouTube first and then it would show up as video I could choose to edit. By this time I was getting frustrated. I did upload video and did get it to crop and then repost. It was pretty easy once I figured it out but the frustration level of getting there was not worth it to me. I also looked at JayCut. I chose this editing software because it intrigued me that it too was a web-based editor but it looked a little more robust. I found this editor very user friendly. Their demo area had clips you could play with as well as songs you could use. It had several video tracks, a sound track, transitions and title screens to create. I found it very intuitive and also found that I spent my time being creative and trying the tools rather than spending my time being frustrated and doing the bare minimum to just get through the software. I think I will definitely use JayCut in the future.
My quote is:
“Shooting with the Edit in Mind
Editing may be the final step of the production, but to make a truly successful video, you need to begin making editing choices in the concept stage.” (Lonnquist)
I found this quote very intriguing. We are doing a lot with backwards design in my district and to here the concept applied to Editing video really made me stop and think. I had never thought about it. I had always thought of editing video as an art. In art you do not always have the end in mind when you begin. The artistic process ebbs and flows and you can end up with something totally different than what you set out to create. To begin with the end in mind might take out a bit of the artistic element and make it more methodical. If you are shooting part of a scene that you know you will edit I am not sure what the advantage is to shooting it in the first place. Maybe they meant that you need to always keep the big picture in mind – I can see where that concept would be beneficial when editing video.
Lonnquist, J. (n.d.). The Art of the Edit. Retrieved 2010, from School Video News: http://www.school-video-news.com/index_files/Art_of_the_Edit.htm
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment