The biggest challenge for me in the editing process was doing the audio. We left ourselves only one day for doing the audio, which I thought would be plenty but I ended up being wrong. Dylan and I did most of it, and Dylan insisted that we had to go through every single audio track (both channels) and do noise cancellation on them using adobe Audition (even the clean tracks). To be honest, I found a lot of it to be excessive, but we committed to doing the whole thing so it was out of my hands.

The sheer amount of time it took was the hardest part. I arrived at uni at 10am and left at 11pm, so the amount of time spent in the suite was bordering on ridiculous. It was good to get some more experience doing noise cancelling, but it did get a bit repetitive after a while.

One thing that we found was that it was near impossible to do effective noise cancelling in clips that did not have a sufficient amount of clean, uninterrupted background noise. The process of doing the audio would have been easier and more effective if we had ensured that we had recorded a sufficient amount of just background noise in each take.

Also, because of the amount of time we spent doing noise cancelling, we didn’t really have any time left for doing colour correction. Fortunately, I didn’t think we needed much colour correction but there were a few shots that could have used it. We had to settle for just doing a couple of brightness/contrast fixes and then calling it a day.

For future projects, I think I’ll try to get the audio work out of the way earlier and probably just focus on the tracks that need the correction instead of just doing them all. Also, I’ll remember to record background noise at the start of every take.