Today I'm presenting this clip from Hong Kong. Looking ahead, there will be four clips each from Africa and Ireland. Then you'll be able to see what happened when I graduated to a type of digitally assisted editing in 1997.
This clip is less than a minute long, extracted from the original 80 minute edit of a trip to Thailand and Hong Kong. Images from the funicular windows as it climbed the mountain, and fountain at the top are fun! I like the raw material; camera work is steady, framing is reasonably good. These could be nice scenes in a future edit.
This blog discusses editing techniques that make amateur video more watchable. The Hong Kong clip has a lot of very watchable moments. The natural sound is good, but it might benefit brom an underlying bed of music. Signage, titles, or narration could provide context.
Lessons Learned:
Video content, however good, needs a good soundtrack to make it interesting.
Suggestion
This is an example of a clip with great potential. If I was editing in Final Cut Pro X, I would mark it as a "Favorite" to make sure it doesn't get lost.
nice
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