Sunday, March 8, 2009
Video Editing
I have always been interested in editing. I edit music for my twirling team all the time. So when we started creating our advocacy PSA, my group let me play. A group member commented that she liked that if I got stuck trying to do something I didn't know how to do, I figured it out by pushing buttons and eventually going to the help tool. I think it takes a certain characteristic to enjoy editing. You have to be a perfectionist (something my sister accuses me of constantly) and you have to take risks or "play". When I get an idea, I stay fixated on it until I figure out the new skill. I'm not sure everyone would do that, especially some of my students. Many people, if they don't know how to use a certain software, do what they can and then give up. Your product might then be less than it could have been.
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Apparently we are the same person. The words that you just said are me to a T. Unfortunately, what happens is I waste planning period upon planning period playing/perfecting. I wish I could be paid to spend days playing.
ReplyDeleteMe too! I can't wait till May/June when I will have time to 'play' with my team's website, our music, and the video I'll making for a reunion. I wish I had more of this that was actual work so I wouldn't feel guilty. Although my planning periods go by too fast as is being a perfectionist.
ReplyDeleteI think part of the ability or willingness to learn how to edit is being willing to push the wrong buttons and figure out how to get back what you lost (or save it some place else). I am the yearbook adviser at my school, so I edit all of the time. With the new program that we have it is difficult to save the original before you start playing and that is frustrating. For some people the fear of doing the wrong things keeps them from being willing to edit.
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