Portfolio Post 20 (week 7): Adventuring into Adobe

Beginning Editing

    Today, Jenna and I began the editing process in class. I understand why we cannot edit at home (to ensure we are the ones doing the editing) but I can't help but admit it does feel quite restricting and claustrophobic, especially as the deadline nears closer and closer. I keep telling myself that I am more than capable of figuring it out within this week to stay on schedule, but truly I'm worried. I have very limited experience in Adobe and Jenna has even less nor does she have any kind of general knowledge regarding technology. So once again this project seems to way much more heavily on me than my partner. Sometimes I wonder if this would have been easier if I would have just done it by myself but I know that's not fair to Jenna as I do just prefer having more control over a project of this magnitude and she seems to prefer just coasting along. So, I do not allow myself to get caught up in frustration over personalities. At least, ours are not conflicting but rather compliment each other. The only times I feel exploited is when she copies the topics I came up with for blog posts or when she asks me questions about literally the general idea of our opening that we have gone over more than enough times. Besides, my frustration truly just comes from my own anxiousness about the project.

    So far much of the editing needs to come from shortening clips and cropping them. Unfortunately, Adobe is not the easiest software to navigate and any of their directions on their help center mention tabs and settings that I cannot even figure out how to get to. Tomorrow, Mr. Zacharias pledged his help which I think we will find to be abundantly helpful. We need to crop some of our clips to ensure that they are centered correctly but I cannot figure out how to accomplish this while maintaining the correct orientation and dimension. I am hopeful that we will be able to figure this out. The other main editing we must do is manipulating the correct length of each clip. It's hard to get a grasp of how long each shot should last before we put them all together, so I'd imagine much of this process will be trial and error, shortening and lengthening.