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 Editing was by far the hardest part. I feel that I did better with this video versus the previous video.  I used a different program that seemed to be a little more user friendly. I was able to more easily adjust clip lengths and edit clips than in the previous program I used. The program I used to edit this video was PowerDirector. I really enjoyed it and learned quite a bit from. I look forward to exploring everything I can do with it in upcoming videos. For this commercial, I took the 27 different shots altogether and was able to narrow them down to the best six. I then added them to the program and further edited them down. At first I was panicking because I was way over the 30 seconds. I ended up replacing a couple of scenes and slowly but surely whittled each shot down to be able the commercial 30 seconds long. Some dialog had to be cut, but in the end, it really was not needed to sell my product. Editing for this video didn't take me nearly as long as my last video. I really think that had more to do with this new program being more user friendly. 



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