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    Hello! I have made a lot of progress on my commercial and I am nearly finished with my production. Now that I have my introduction and order of photos and videos, I am going to begin editing the clips so they fit the screen properly. Upon being added to the film, the photos shift over the three-second clip. While the shifting of the images does add animation to a non-moving scene, it appears slightly messy and I prefer for it to look neater. I am going to alter this so that they stay still throughout the duration of the scene. To do so, I clicked on each photo and disabled Ken Burns. Then I pinched and altered the photos so they were cropped at the right position. For the first photo, I centered myself as the image was off-center before. I did the same for the rest of the photos. Now that I have edited the length and position of the photos, I began to work on the videos. The first video is only two seconds long so I left it as is. This is because it does not need to be cut and it is already positioned adequately. However, the second video required some adjusting. I cut the video into three sections. I then removed the very beginning, which was an establishing shot. Next, I removed the clip in the middle that has little movement. This left me with 11.1 seconds of this clip. This cut my film down to 38.5 seconds. This is not too long for my film, as it is in the recommended range, but it is on the shorter side. I would like my commercial to be a little longer in duration. I predict that my film will lengthen after I conclude editing as I will add longer transitions. At the moment, all of my transitions are "Dissolve," but I plan to change them to add some variation to my film. I plan to conclude productions this week, and I have a plan on how to do that. Since I only need to add transitions and noise, I should conclude the film swiftly.




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