How I got working with Get Licensed
I was first contacted through Upwork, the freelancer platform, via an old job post they had. Out of no where I received an offer for the role and so I naturally questioned if there was some mistake or confusion. Thankfully they did want to work with me so we hopped on a zoom call and I was not long after working for the main video editor at Get Licensed.
Projects I was involved with (Nov-Dec 2021)
- Spiking video: adding in motion graphics
- A couple of Instagram Stories – Extracting snippets from 20 minute long YouTube episodes
Workflow & Relationships
Although I had the chance to meet the manager and actor (via Zoom), I mainly liaised with their full time video editor. The company is based in London, yet most of the team worked from home. So the main method of sending across files to work with was through slack. For the Spiking video, it was already a pre-edited cut, just without motion graphics. The assets for creating the Instagram stories were the episodes rendered out without music and the individual music files. It’s quite a destructive way of working, but absolutely efficient and a sure-fire way to avoid maxing out storage!
Tips & Tricks learned
How to Hide Cuts Smoothly
The easiest way is to slap on B-roll over cuts. I’ve also found to pick up the pace and shave off time from a video to cut out dead spaces of the talking A-roll. A relatively new tip that I had thought to do in the Spiking video is to insert a title or text of what the speaker is saying either to give emphasis or to break up the video into smaller sections. Granted, this may not work if there are way too many cuts! In that case scaling in and out would So a combination of these suggestions might do the trick.
Sleek Text Behind Objects
I thought to key out the main speaker and separate him from the background. It had been a bit tricky to get the balance right since the back drop isn’t a green screen. Some highlights from his face were creating holes! Thankfully animated the text in is quick so if it lingered behind him for longer it would expose the drawbacks to the effect.
