Final Blog For Commercial

 Today is November 6th 2019. Starting from November 5th, 2019, me and my partner started editing. The editing process is pretty easy so far. We already had our files set up into our computer. All we needed to do is open the program we're using and get to work. The program we're using as Sony Vegas 15. To start editing into the program, we had to drag the files onto the timeline. After that, we had to sort out the files we need in order of appearance. After sorting the files out, we had about one minute and 15 seconds of raw footage. We need to find a way to cut that all the way down to 30 seconds.

The first thing we do is delete parts of the videos. There was a clip of a video that was about 13 seconds long, so we look at the clip and see what was important. After we seen that around 4 seconds of the clip was important, we used the Split tool to cut the video in half. After cutting the video, we deleted that unused section of that clip. We did the same thing to another clip which was just around 10 seconds. Getting around 5 seconds of film we need and cutting the rest. After that clip, we had to do something with the very first clip. That first clip was an intro clip that was a very good idea the day we filmed it. But it wasn't the case anymore. That clip was deleted entirely from the timeline and commercial after we realize we didn't really need to clip at all. It saved us about a nice 5 seconds.

Now instead of splitting all the clips all together. We wanted to time-lapse a large 15 second clip into 4 seconds. The clip was from mostly motion and was re filmed at least 3 times before we got the scene right. To time-lapse a clip, you had to push effects ( EX ) on the video and the change the velocity of the video. Velocity in Sony Vegas just means how fast or slow a clip is going. Negative velocity means that the clip is going in reverse and positive means that the clip is going forward. We set the velocity at about 200%-275%. We did this to another clip in the film but ultimately we delete that clip because it was a waste of time ( literally). If we have enough time then we can keep playing around with some effects and see what we can do but for now we are still over the 30 second threshold. We still have around 5 days to keep editing before we have to submit our Nike Commercial!