There are two things I'll never get bored of doing, and they're writing and editing. Of course, editing what I've written is something completely different and does occasionally test my patience. The main reason for why I love editing videos is because of the chaos within the sequences - the crazy patterns (this one looks like a spaceship, if I do say so myself) that develop which appear to be nonsense, but once rendered plays back the idea you've envisioned, and that's awesome.
During lockdown I took the opportunity to build up my editing skills. Since lockdown began, I've edited 14 different videos, 13 of them specifically to introduce a new method of editing and incorporate it into the video, and the 14th was editing commentary from me and three of my friends, something I hadn't done for a while and thought it'll be good to familiarise myself with that style as well.
The above picture focuses on Nests (a timeline within a timeline). Instead of littering the main timeline with countless layers, combine a few of them into one nest, then within that nest, animate the text or video however you wish, and the main timeline will play out what you've done. For example, the nest called, Fictional Stats, has 19 layers within, whereas on the main timeline it only takes up one layer. I have a total of 7 original nests, with one that's copied. The main timeline has 11 layers in total, but if I were to take into account all the layers within each nest, the official total would be, 58. Imagine all of them on one timeline and that's why I used nests to make that video.
The above picture appears more complicated than it actually is. The placement of all the sound effects and music is what makes this timeline appear complex, but overall the final video was relatively easy. If I do say so myself, this timeline looks like a cruise ship floating on water. I didn't intend it to look like that, it just evolved as the video went along.
Timelnes are like clouds in the sky... that sounds way to poetic for this article, doesn't it? But like clouds, you can spot what they appear to be like. Such as the one below, looking like a heavy duty spaceship designed to carry cargo but also packs a punch against other ships when required.
I won't share all 14 timelines with you, but 90% of them can be associated with spaceships, but you do get the occasional one that looks different.
Thanks for reading
Antony Hudson
(TonyHadNouns)
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