Editing is Evil

A retrospect on a semester of Intro to Filmmaking.

DaVinci Resolve Project with all the Media Offline, how I feel whenever I have to Edit.

I've always enjoyed movies and making movies, but the one job I've always avoided like the plague is editing. Well this semester, I took Intro to Filmmaking, where I was met with my worst enemy, DaVinci Resolve. Now, I've dabbled in resolve on and off over the past two years but all I really know how to do is basic editing stuff and add a messy color grading. So when I became the main editor of my group's projects, you can probably imagine how dire the situation was.

My two pieces of beef with editing are quite simple: I hate listening to recordings of my voice, and the repetition drives me insane. It's frustrating trying to align every piece hunched over your laptop at 2am, and the multiple hours of work you have to put into trial and error will make you wonder if it is all worth it (it is but you will still hate the actions). And the thing about my voice is just I do not sound like that in real life, or at least in my head I don't sound like that. It's like watching your body speak and someone else's voice comes out, or I've rewatched the same clip 13 times and can't tell what's happening anymore. As I said, I'm just not built for editing, or at least, I'm not built to be the main editor.

I guess the one plus of the whole experience is that I now kinda know what I'm doing. I can navigate DaVinci relatively well now, though I still don't know much, but it's enough to get by. Editing is still evil and I still don't quite like it but I understand it a little bit better. Which in the end is enough for me.