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Post-Production

The post-production stage was the most enjoyable part of the project; I began by creating an intro, which felt like the most difficult part, but I believe I nailed it; my only criticism was that it could have been made longer by about 10/15 seconds; after that, I began to cut up the interviews into compound clips, which are labeled with the questions asked to make editing far easier.
Next, I imagined how I wanted the documentary to feel, which helped me choose music for the backing track. I settled on a royalty-free track from a stock site called 'Artist.'

The entire process was very simple and taught me about Proxies within editing software,I use Black Magics, and DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio, commonly used in the industry.
There is a file type called a proxy, which is basically a lower-quality copy of the original media. This allows for a smooth process because as you edit, you see the lower quality clip, freeing up resources on my computer, but when it comes time to render the final product, it will export the higher quality variant of the clip. This made it easier for me to start editing on my laptop at college and then continue on once I got home on my PC. All I had to do was log into my DaVinci Cloud project server, which I pay for on a monthly basis, and send myself the proxies to continue editing seamlessly, without having to download the raw footage, which is significantly larger in size.

The biggest setback, ironically, was that I had made ALL of my files proxy and did not have the original file (not the proxy) on my laptop, but rather on my home computer, but DaVinci cannot render proxy files, so I had to find the original clip online and link them, which took a long time.

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