Wrapped up another talking head project today.
Started doing something different on this one. Labeling and sorting every single aspect of my work. Every sequence, every bin, every asset. Clean and organized from the start.
Takes a bit of extra time upfront. But halfway through a long project you realize you’re not wasting 20 minutes searching for that one clip you need.
Lesson learned: organize your process properly or pay for it later with your time.
Editors, tell me this hits different.
You edit someone’s life for months.
Know their habits, their jokes, their friends.
But they don’t even know what you look like. Maybe creators should start inviting editors to their parties lol.
New day, new grind.
Working on an expert talking head video today. Not really my thing if I’m honest, I’d rather be editing some crazy vlog somewhere.
But bills don’t pay themselves.
That’s the editor life.
Timeline from a recent gaming video with 6 participants.
Almost the entire timeline is made of nested sequences, and the whole video was done pretty quickly.
The biggest issue was that one of the participants forgot to turn on their mic recording, so I had to completely rebuild the story through editing. Almost 2 hours of footage had no audio at all, so I had to pull audio from Discord piece by piece just so the participant would at least start speaking lol.
A lot of the pacing and structure had to be reworked to make the story more interesting.
And somehow these editing changes and storytelling tweaks ended up creating some of the funniest moments in the video and the comments prove it.
Hope I get more projects like this in my life.