Classwork: Multicam Editing

In this blog you can find the work I did on how to edit with multiple cameras. My group filmed the footage together, but we each edited it on our own. My teacher provided a template for the blog post. 

What is Multicam Editing?

Multicam editing is the process of editing footage of a single scene or subject recorded from different cameras and angles. Showing the same scene or subject from different angles helps make the video more dynamic and visually captivating for your audience.

Shooting

Our subject, a classmate, stood in the center of the room and did a short performance. My group stood around the subject to record the performance from different angles. You can also see members from other groups because we did this lesson as a class. To make it easier to synchronize our cameras, the teacher clapped at the start of the scene. This allowed us to line up the video in the editing process and ensure that the transitions would be smooth. Without this simple action it would have taken a lot longer to sync the videos. 

Here are behind the scene pictures that were taken by my teacher during the shooting process.

Here are the raw videos from my group members:

1.  Cheryl's (High angle shot)

2. Aurel's (Medium angle shot)

3. Regine's (Low angle shot)

My editing process

1. Uploaded three of the videos in my editing software (CapCut)

2. Found the clap marker on the audio and had cut the extra recordings before that.

3. I detached the audio of all 3 clips, clicked on the volume icon on the panel below, and decreased all to 0 as I wanted to put a song over the video.

4. Since I had 3 clips going on at the same time, I overlayed them. I also wanted to make a pattern in the cuts, so instead of deleting clips, I lowered the opacity to 0 for every 2 clips of each section. That way the existing clips can be used again later. (Some of the clips have a black overview though they have no problem and I can't figure out the reason it appears that way)

5. I extracted an audio from another platform to use as the song, however the duration wasn't as long as the video clip. Thus I tried a fading out effect for the extracted audio as well as a fading in effect for the original audio so that it would at least not sound sudden. 

Here is my final edited video:

Here is a link to the video: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FzMJjCbT070nUuZ56k7q1HP34ZKAV7Qr/view?usp=sharing

Self-reflection

The editing process was done on my phone as I previously downloaded this software for past projects. Though I have some experience, it was still quite challenging as I’m not that used to editing videos. Most of the time during these type of projects, a teammate would carry the editing work as they have better editing skills than I do. Because I'm unfamiliar with the more advanced tools, this classwork thus helped me to explore and familiarize myself with them. Although my team already has fixed roles where Regine will be doing the editing, this may help in cases where she needs me to be editing parts of the raw footages before sending them to her to edit them as a whole.