Blank editing space

As I stated on my last blog post, Lauren and I have officially concluded our filming process for the documentary portion of the portfolio project. While preparing for the editing journey (our hardest obstacle yet), we agreed that conducting editing research would be essential. Although both Lauren and I have experience editing, our last documentary project was edited on iMovie, a platform which caused us a large amount of stress and concern. Therefore, for our portfolio, we concluded it would be beneficial to use Adobe Premiere as our editing platform instead, thus increasing the need for research as Adobe is a much more sophisticated and complicated application. 

Firstly, I felt I needed to learn the basics. For a documentary, at times, it is necessary to detach audios from specific videos in order to replace the original video with different clips while maintaining its sounds, a function primarily helpful for b-roll placement and one I am only familiar with on iMovie. Below is a short yet extremely helpful YouTube video I discovered while researching the audio-separating function on Adobe Premiere. 

In addition to learning the detachment of audios, I brainstormed other functions I performed on iMovie amidst our previous projects that I did not necessarily understand how to employ on Adobe. During my editing of last year's portfolio project, the two minute film opening, although I edited the complete piece on Adobe, I was required to export the extract onto iMovie in order to add text onto the piece, considering I was greatly struggling to do so on Adobe. Also, last year, my film opening included a plethora of fading transitions between clips that were essential in translating the overall theme of the film, another task I had to export onto iMovie for due to Adobe's complications. Provided text is crucial in documentaries, especially for subject introduction, and transitions may assist the flow of the storytelling process, I concluded these were skills I had to learn, landing upon the two following instructional videos during my research: 

I would like to give a personal shout-out to "Adobe in a Minute," the creator of two of the YouTube videos above. Now, understanding how the primary functions that caused me concern in the past work on Premiere Pro, I feel increasingly confident that Lauren and I will not face as much stress and as many obstacles as done on our last documentary project. Of course, more research may be required as we begin editing and perhaps encounter complications; however, for now, I strongly believe we are set to commence our journey.