Classwork: Multicam Editing

In this blog you can find the work I did on how to edit with multiple cameras. My group filmed the footage, but I edited it alone. My teacher provided a template for the blog post. 

What is Multicam Editing?

Multicam editing is the process of editing footage of a single scene or subject recorded from different cameras and angles. Showing the same scene or subject from different angles helps make the video more dynamic and visually captivating for your audience

Shooting

Our subject , a classmate, stood in the centre of the room and did a short performance. My group stood around the subject to record the performance from different angles. You can also see members from other groups because we did this lesson as a class. To make it easier to synchronise our cameras, the teacher clapped at the start of the scene. This allowed us to line up the video in the editing process and ensure that the transitions would be smooth. Without this simple action it would have taken a lot longer to sync the videos. 

(BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGES)

Here are the raw videos from my group members:

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My editing process

• Upload the videos to the editing software, 'Capcut'.

• Detach the audio of the clip you wish to use in the final video. 

• Find the ‘clap’ marker on the audio.

• Line up the video files together. 

• Cut where I want the edit to happen

• Don’t delete the clip, just lower the opacity. This way it can be used again later. 

• Mute all clips except for the one you want to use. 

 ( INCLUDE SCREENSHOTS OF YOUR EDITING)

Here is my final edited video:

Reflection: This practice helps me... practice and exercise my editing skills, because I used to make edits & small trailers on my YouTube channel, however it's been a while since I've done that. It'd be fun to use my editing skills for our bigger, long-term project. What I found challenging was controlling small things like getting the opacity confused and relying on contrast and saturation to adjust the low brightness that was actually just mistakened for low opacity. Problem was also not being able to use the volume at its biggest due to being in a big, mostly quiet classroom. The process could be simplified if I did this work in my own time, in my own place with my own volume, and also not getting the video's visual adjustments confused, being more organized in general./