Digital News Unit: Post-Production: Editing Part 2

After Sophie edited the Bansky news package I was given it to add in some extra things and see if any other edits were needed. In an earlier post I mentioned that we may struggle to hit 2 minutes due to not getting an interview but thankfully that issue never arose and we surpassed 2 minutes instead (2 minutes 8 seconds at time of posting).


One of our segments involves an image of the Folkestone harbour area to so we can show where certain bits of regeneration are happening. I looked at the effects section to see if there was a highlight effect so I could make the areas more visible. There was so I added this in for the first regeneration project: a garden area.

I tried to do it for the second area but I had an issue with the colour of the shot: it would make it twice as dark for every extra spotlight effect I added in.

Noticeably darker. 

I couldn't reduce the darkness without making the spotlight weaker and harder to see so to get round this I cut the original shot into 3 separate ones at the point the reporter mentioned the next regen project and gave each one its own spotlight effect: this got rid of the darkness issue but meant each spotlight only lasted as long as the cut down clip was.

On the timeline you can see the clips have been cut shorter.

The third spotlight.

I watched through and felt the spotlights were disappearing too quickly so I saved a single frame of the first two and then overlaid them on top of the segment. I then trimmed the clips so only a small portion of the single frame was left: this allowed the other spotlights to be seen. So it’s basically 3 images overlaying each other and trimmed so all of the spotlights can be seen.

These are the two screenshots after trimming their size.

Screenshots now added over the original clip.

And done: now the first two spotlights stay for the remainder of the segment.