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Editing our film - Finishing the job



    We wrapped up our editing and exported our film today, and as our project is coming to a close, I'll look over some of the last few changes and improvements our video oversaw before we finished the job.

You can see the back driver-side window blurred out in the top-right, while the layout of the video editor shows the true intricacy of this part of the intro

    First of all building straight off the last editing post, I did find a good solution to the abrupt blur issue we had. I made the effect fade in and out, and it worked wonders, now it looks much more smooth, and even less noticeable than it had been prior to this. However, I had to use some creativity for this. The way I did it was I removed the effect from being directly on top of the third scene's video segment and added another exact frame of the same exact video on top of it that I conducted the effect on and faded in and out. This process was repeated many times for different windows, but with this, I was able to make that frame fade in and out at will without greatly affecting the quality of the video!

    We also have finally decided to add some diegetic sound. I chose a high-pitched intensifying build-up sound effect and applied it to the part of the video where Daniel, the driver, has his mental breakdown in the last scene. The sound suddenly stops as the title comes into view. After reviewing the new addition a few times with the team, we decided to keep it.

    After this change, I looked around the film for any last-minute minor fixes, ironing out all the small problems, smoothening the audio with fades. And I was finally done!

Exporting the video

    Now I had to export the film. I did this by using the in-n-out area of HitFilm Express, a nice feature that allows you to cut straight at whatever point you want. I exported it to an .MP4 file in 1080p, keeping it straight at 2 minutes to the mark. While it was a little bit of work, looking back at it in the end it definitely looks like it's been worth it!

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