Critique my first edit

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DaveJ

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This is the first edit my friends and I put some time into. Its not complete yet but I was wondering how I could improve it. Its filmed with a Gopro hero 3+ and some FujiFilm camera not sure which one it's my friends and its edited on iMovie. Any help is greatly appreciated since we will be filming a lot more next season.
https://vimeo.com/87479275

I apologize for not getting the link to work.

 
Well at least you were honest could you maybe suggest a new song or tips for improving. And thanks for embedding.
 
My advice would be to work on stabilizing your shots. You might want to invest in a stabilizer, but for what you have already shot, you could try using warp stabilizer in Adobe Premiere. I would also recommend cropping the 4:3 shots to 16:9 to eliminate the black bars on the side of the screen.
 
I enjoyed the song! 25 bucks is one of my personal favourites, as for the edit, I thought it was pretty good, the stability of shots was a little rough and it was a a little bit too long, with many similar tricks, that being said, overall a great first edit
 
I think that the font is bad, or at least how it was put in. In addition not a big fan of the transitions, also lower skiing noise
 
Im just going to put it all in two lists: "the good list" and "the bad list"

The Good List

- Some of the skiing looked good

- Some of the clips worked out fine.

- Different camera angles(at least some times)

The Bad List:

- Shaky clips

- Sound from the shots are too damn loud

- Transitions

- Maybe a different song would fit better?(Just my opinion)

- Try to keep the skier in focus(at all times!)

- Don't finish a clip before the skier has finished h*s trick..!

- Figure out and experiment with other camera angels

- Colors, colors, colors...

In other words, you should get a stabilizer for the camera, or get Premiere Pro so that you can use Warp Stabilizer. Try to variate the camera angels a bit more, and keep the skier in focus. Grade the colors when you're editing, turn down the background sounds(!), and do not end the clip before it's necessary. Also, try finding some better-looking transitions. I would have chosen a different song, but we all have our taste.

As I said, some of your clips were fine, and these were mostly the ones where the cameraman was standing still. You had some variety in camera angels, and some of the skiing looked good. Hope this helped at least a little bit, and that I did not sound like I tried to be a Bezzerwizzer. Keep up the work, and I'm sure you'll get an even better product in the future. Good luck.
 
Thanks for all the help Im defiantly going to try and work on all these things. Next year Im going to purchase a camera with a stabilizer and invest in a better editing software.
 
Ok so. On the plus side. Skiing was actually pretty good. And the negatives. Music was terrible, some shots you couldnt see the skier, very very shaky, angles could have been better, seemed like no color correction was done, if you are gonna blast the clip audio so loud it should be good audi and the imovie titles are a big no no.

Id say invest in a dslr setup (t3i, tokina 11 16 or tamron 17 50, glidecam, videomic pro, this is the go too ns setup. Pretty foolproof for skiing) then invest time into learning how to shoot manual properly and that will clear up many of the problems. As far as imovie goes, its not a terrible program, for simple stuff it is fine, the one thing you should never do is use those titles it screams AAMMMMMM. But keep filming and making edits and youll learn as time goes on
 
My edits suck themselves, but just a tip I picked up is try to avoid transitions. You used a lot of blurs in between shots, and what you want to do in a cut is make it smooth and flowy, not something that the watcher notices and can think about. So try as much as possible to stay away from the dissolves and blurs and just make clean cuts that flow nicely in the edit.
 
there were a couple of shots in the edit were the rider didn't ride away clean and just took the whole vibe of the edit down, also the filming was abit shaky and finally don't cut away from the song, hit the rail or whatever then fade into the same song, the point of fading away from the song is so you can put a new one and if you do that then don't have skiing have something else
 
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