I began placing videos in my timeline today.
Final Cut Pro makes it very easy to select and place videos in the timeline. Once you get the hang of it becomes intuitive to do this. I can see why a lot of people like to use this software.
Even though it’s easy to do this it made me nervous and a little excited to be working on my project. Nervous because I feel like this needs to be perfect and be the best video that I’ve ever made. Excited because I want to see how it turns out well.
The whole time I was working there was a small voice in the back of my mind telling me that I don’t know what I’m doing and that no one cares about any of this. I kept telling myself that it doesn’t matter and that I’m doing this for myself. I can’t help but wonder whether there will be improvement.
I know it’s only a small video in the grand scheme of things, but I really do want it to be good. I mean, why learn something new and spend all this time doing it for nothing. If I don’t improve, and if this project isn’t better than the original, I have wasted my time and my money.
One thing I do know is that I have put more thought and more effort into this project than I did the original. I think the preplanning turned out well. Now it’s just a matter of putting the shots in the proper order, tweaking them so they look like I want them to, and adding some final polish to it all.
It is already taking me longer to do this one compared to the original. The first attempt at this project took about two hours. I have already devoted 10 hours to this project and I still probably have 6 to 10 hours to go yet. There definitely is plenty of time and effort invested in making a decent video.
I’m going to end here for the night. My fuzzy cat wants my attention so I’m going to go play with him and scratch his head some.
My Final Cut Pro 