First Day Editing

 My first day of editing I immediately ran into an issue, Bella had been shooting simply on Premiere Rush and saving it to my camera roll, none of it went to the cloud to transfer it from my phone to the cloud to pull it up on the laptop. I was able to upload the videos from my phone onto the laptop and manually put them into Premiere Rush, but some of the files wouldn't load. I had to edit on my phone instead, which isn't an issue since I normally edit on my phone, but it's still fustrating. 

While I was tricked into thinking the files were uploading when really they just weren't transferring, I was reading Adobe's tips on how to edit. On this site it runs through the steps on how to start the editing process from the very beginning, starting with organizing your footage.

I've only ever edited dance videos before on VideoLeap, which as you can see below is a different style of editing than this film since I upload those to social media platforms. The Adobe site even stated that uploading to social media versus editing for these kinds of short films or clips require different editing styles, so this fast paced style I normally use could make or break our film.

What was similar was watching every video from start to finish and assembling the best cuts, rearranging if needed. While I don't have an alotted time frame in my dance videos, I had one for this, so many of the best takes had to be shortened since we had so much footage. Since we also didn't shoot everything in order or create a timeline of what goes where, most of this first day was trimming to the best cuts and attempting to put them in sequential order.