Reflection

In general, I had a lot of fun with this project.  I would be laughing to myself during portions of the editing as I played the video back to me for testing purposes.  Also, I found that I enjoyed video editing with meaning, which is actually a relief to me.  I plan on doing animations with story, and to be able to do that, I need to have an eye for edits.  And although it probably is better for others to critique my editing ability (PLEASE DO SO), the ease to which editing came (not necessarily with meaning, just editing) was at the very least an assurance.

But... I also learned, finally, the terrible nature of the program iMovie.  Early on I discovered that I could not leave gaps in video.  That immediately hurt my workflow, as I first layered clips to edit long ones, and then resorted to dragging a long one, cutting it and praying it fit with the song.  And even the cutting was dodgy, as sometimes it wouldn't even cut the clip, or it would cut the music, or it would delete the clip etc etc.  It was a nightmare working with it, really, and it is really a miracle that the end product had some amount of quality left.  I may work with iMovie still out of necessity; I do not have a better program on my computer, and most of my memory on my computer is going to other necessary programs, but eventually I will, no, I have to delete iMovie for a better program.

Finally, I have fostered great respect for audio editors through my terrible mistake at attempting to do audio mashups.  I am not very talented with music, and so the BPM issue came up way too late into the project timeline.  I may attempt to come back sometime later to play around with it, but in the meantime I will be only using it for small edits.