Editing editing editing...

     Sooooo, I am not done yet. It honestly hurts to admit that because I've really been trying to follow my schedule, and I've been doing a good job up to this point. However, my main goal is to make this the best it can be and if that means taking a little bit more time to edit, then I can live with that. I wanted to post today about this to just provide an update and show where I am in the editing process. 

    Basically what happened was I've been editing on and off all week, today I woke up at 7am to try and finally finish it. I still had to work on the last few transitions and from the time I last posted about this I realized that the sound wasn't the right volume and I needed to fix it. I still needed to add in the credits as well. On Friday I started working on adding them in but I needed to fix the length of some of the clips so I decided I would just wait until I was happy with everything before adding them in.

    Right now I still need to add in all the credits and make the audio line up better. I'm a lot happier with it then when I woke up this morning, but I feel like if I rush to get it done by tonight, it wont look as good as it can. 

These are all the clips and audio I have added in right now. I'm happy with the video but I still need to go through it a few more times to to make the audio perfect. As you can see, everything's been almost shifted to the side and clumped together so I need to put everything back in place.

    Also in the time between now and my last post about this, I've added in the company logo and the movie title. I also realized I needed a sound for this logo, which was an oversight on my part. However, I went to Freesound.org and was I was able to find a sound for that and the title card.

    I also found a way to have the audio slowly increase as the opening goes on so it sounds like the past is taking over her mind slowly, and so the audience can get a little more time to figure out what is happening on screen.

    Right now I have this almost hysterical laughter to represent the girls when they were little laughing together. Honestly, I liked it when I recorded it but I really hate it now. So I think tomorrow I'm going to rerecord the laughing to make it sound less hyena, and more little girls having fun.

Conclusions:

    I'm happy with what I have so far and my new date that I want to have all the editing done by is Wednesday March 4th. Its a reasonable date based on how much I've completed and how much I still need to get done. Really the biggest thing I still have to do is add in the credits, and I already know how to do that, so it probably wont take that long. Everything else is just shifting things into place and making sure it sounds good. I'll update you here when I'm done editing!