Seoul, South Korea Balasbas Trip 2019
Prologue: My parents have been asking for my brother and I to put a video together of the trips we had over July 2019. It’s been awhile, but it’s hard to make time to be creative while balancing work.
Before, I could just slap videos together with iMovie, but I knew that’s not what I wanted. I didn’t have the tech or programs to put together the kind of videos I want to produce. I feel like I maxed out iMovie’s capacity, even my best friend was surprised I figured out how to layover green screens, masks, and split screens on the program.
During our trip, my brother and I have finally felt comfortable enough with our equipment to try different shots or angles we’ve always envisioned capturing. So over the past year I saved up some money to get myself a new laptop that could handle a proper editing program.
My brother had invested in the Adobe cloud suite so we could use Premier Pro to move away from free programs and test new limits of what I was capable of with iMovie. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out the program. It definitely had all the things I needed to play around with, but I could see where a college class or even my cousin’s degree in cinema arts explains how all of these tools function.
My best friend was able to get me Final Cut Pro, and the lay out was just a more advanced version of iMovie—so it was a lot easier for me to adjust. I spent a lot of time looking into effects, transitions, color grading, how to use the program in general. And after at least 19 hours of editing—not including learning from YouTube videos, I finally made a video that broke the boundaries of my knowledge of video editing.
Now I get why lighting and the way you shoot is so key. Now I know a little of how my friends and family that are full-time into cinema and film feel. I thought I did before, but compared to the projects I used to make, I think this really challenged my endurance to get to the end. And I’m ready for more.
Enjoy this video and share it with friends! Hopefully I can make more videos and posts that detail more of our trip and not just about the editing process.
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