Editing in the Sound

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 This was by far the easiest part of my whole final task. I used less than 20 seconds of music in the whole thing. The majority of my sound in the film was as is. The speaking parts were all spoken and they sounded just fine in recordings. This is the first time in all of my now three tasks that the audio was perfect. All I had to do in terms of sound editing this time was take the audio mentioned in my last editing blog, and apply it. Using iMovie, I clipped all the footage down, all the extra seconds here and there. Then, I used the footage to which I'd already applied the titles. I used the sound for the opening few seconds, which was easy enough. In this software, there's a line below the film for sound. I actually like that feature, as I can line them up to fit perfectly. This means the sound will last just as long as I need it to coordinate with the film. Snipping away at the film was the hardest part. I had all these 5-7 second clips of usable footage surrounded by like 2-3 seconds of space on each side. Getting everything exactly right was slightly tedious. The worst part was the length, as I had so many clips, and when unedited together, they were 30+ seconds longer than needed. In the end, I was able to shave everything down just perfectly. In the end, I'm really happy with the way everything came out. This has by far, been the hardest assignment to date in this class. I am, however, ecstatic that I was able to complete it well, and get it in on time.



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