Process of editing, Part 1

Hey it's Jasmine, apologies for not blogging for a while, I've been working on the title sequence for a week now just dialling in coordinates which is quite a long process as I can't copy and paste coordinate from other clips I've edited to the right shape and size. So I will just show you what I've been up to since.

This is the screen I decided to work on first before I had edited a clip in to the shape.

This is the result after editing a separate piece of footage to fit.

The coordinates I had planned to use on all
the screens for the specific shape. 

So as I had already edited a clip into the perfect shape, by doing a trial and error of just testing out different coordinates til I got the right ones for all 16 points, I had achieved the perfect coordinates that had to be consistent for the screen I was working on.

As I couldn't find a way to open both the coordinates for the previously edited clip and the current one I had to edit, I had to find an easier way of doing it than trying to remember 32 numbers (2 numbers for the 16 points) or jumping back and forth each time, making it easier to remember but longer to do. Eventually I decided to print screen the coordinates that I wanted to incorporate for the unedited clip from the one I had already finished transforming.

As I saved the print screened coordinates as a image, I opened it up whilst I was editing on each clip I wanted to edit into the shape. This way was the easiest way I found to do it as I could still see the coordinates from one clip, yet edit another.

Along with making sure the effect of the 'Sixteen-Point Garbage Matte' was to stay consistent, I had to make sure the shape, size and slight rotation remained the same in each clip.

As you can imagine, the rendering of this project took a while each time, considering how much footage and  editing we were fitting into a 26 second opening title sequence. So it was hard to get time to play it back, but I am hopeful the end result will go beyond my group's expectation as at the beginning of the editing process we were struggling but now I certainly feel like we're progressing.

#J.A