From the course: Making Video 2: Teach Something

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Laying the foundation

Laying the foundation - HitFilm Express Tutorial

From the course: Making Video 2: Teach Something

Start my 1-month free trial

Laying the foundation

- After organizing and screening the footage, which can often be one of the more tedious parts of the editing process, the exciting part really begins. You get to start editing. One note before we dive in. As you know, we shot this cooking video multi-cam. However, because this is a beginner course, we won't actually be editing it in true multi-cam workflow. That is, there are many editing programs that allow you to link clips together that were shot at the same time and then dynamically switch back and forth between them in a sort of live switcher format, so that isn't what we're doing here but I will show you how you can use different clips within a multi-cam setup and perform basic edits with that material. All right, so keep that in mind. I'll come back to that concept in the next movie. First though, it's good to just start laying in your shots to form a rough assembly. The goal of the rough assembly is to just get all of the main shots in the right order from start to finish…

Contents