Vexercise 3 Check In

[lola]

 Hi folks! How is Vexercise 3 treating you? Are you trying the rhythmic editing, the sound editing, or both? Run into any questions/issues/confusions/fun discoveries? Found any inspirational videos or tutorials to share? 

Also, there've been a couple questions about process, specifically about whether people are making subclips, using pancake timelines, or just scrubbing through episodes. What have you been doing so far with the vexercises in terms of clip prep? What's been working for you? (or not working for you? :D) 

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[shopfront]

I went for sound editing because that's totally new to me and it's been really interesting! It took me a fair bit to pull together a cohesive idea just because it was so unfamiliar but I've learnt a lot more than I expected to from playing around with Fairlight.

I've just been importing full episodes and scrubbing through them within Resolve. I'm trying to stick with the spirit if not the technical letter of the 2-4 episode aspect to the challenge (I've currently got about 7 to hand at the moment, out of four seasons) so it's still been simpler and quicker that way. I also know this canon very well, so I can easily guess roughly where to find specific shots in each ep.

It's definitely got me more focused on being creative instead of bogged down in clipping and juggling source which is great for its own reasons, but this is probably the first exercise where I can also really see the source limitations shaping my vid. The episodes I'm using are heavily weighted towards a season long violent/polticial conflict plot and it totally pivoted my original concept once I started pulling clips and remembered which scenes I didn't actually have access to. It's interesting to look at the end product and think about how different it might be if I was using different episodes. I might go back and made a 2.0 version of this one sometime and see how they compare, actually.