Video Editing Project - Using Shotcut to Intercut Video and Still Images - Title Sequence Mockup
This is my second effort at editing a video project with Shotcut. Overall, my goal is to use the software primarily for making educational videos, so I wanted to try intercutting video with still images. I also wanted to try out some transitions, and using the software to make onscreen text. The music is a royalty-free track called Stunted Adventure, by Bryan Teoh (used so, I could have a score, and test out some audio filters).
I suppose this is the first real video I've ever made myself, in the sense of having a beginning, a middle, and an end, with separate, complex video and audio parts. It's certainly no masterpiece of cinematic history, but given my complete lack of direct experience with video editing software, that is to be expected. Again, I found Shotcut remarkably easy to just "jump in and get started," which makes it pretty fun to learn. As the project got more complicated I did experience a few crashes, but the recovery system brought everything back quickly.
In the past, one of the main barriers to entry for me to start editing videos has been that I usually use fairly low-end hardware; so, I can easily learn resource-intensive software, but then not be able to do much with it. That has not been the case with Shotcut, at least not with small projects; it runs smoothly and responsively.
Since I didn't have any actual content planned right now, I did this as more of a cinematic opening title sequence, just for fun. Ginger Louise and Yasmina are generally delighted to be centers of attention, so I threw them into the mix. The video and still images were all shot by me, in and around the Capitol Hill neighborhood, in Charleston, West Virginia.