Hey 👋 It’s Kyle the Video Guy here to show you a little BTS on how I created my submission to the Daniel Schiffer Edit My Video Challenge. Here’s a step by step of how I edited my video for the challenge:
1. Reviewed the assets and started brainstorming creative ideas on a whiteboard.
2. Mapped out how exactly I would achieve this edit.
3. Gathered stock footage from Storyblocks to supplement Daniel’s footage and fill in some of the gaps of the story I was trying to tell.
4. When I decided to green-screen, I knew I needed a static shot, but I couldn't find one that I liked enough so I settled with this simple motion forward. There would be some parallax to deal with but still much easier to film.
5. I set up the green screen and took a frame of the spaceship interior as an overlay for reference on the Atomos Ninja V monitor, and tried to match the perspective with the height and focal length of the camera the best I could.
6. I tracked the motion of the spaceship footage with Mo...