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Importing the scenes on CapCut

 I started to edit my opening sequence together. I began editing on February twenty third. On this day I put all of my scenes on Capcut and adjusted the lengths. The first thing I did was open Capcut. I use the app on my phone so, its easy to do this. Once adding the clips to Capcut on the bottom of the screen it has different tabs I can choose the "edit" tab. After clicking on the tab it takes me to this page where I can make my own project. To do this I click on the "new project" button on the app. After clicking on this button it takes me to my camera roll. It has the options to use videos, photos, or live photos. I click on the "video" option. After clicking on this option I choose all of my scenes for my opening sequence. I do this by clicking on the video then choosing the "add" option on the bottom right corner of the screen. After doing this it take me to where I can add effects, music, and transitions to the video. It imports all of my clips. I start by rearranging my clips in order of scenes. I was able to fix the order by holding it down on my screen and dragging it. To drop it I left up my finger. I kept doing this until I got all of my scenes in the correct order. This took about twenty minutes because, I had to look back at my storyboard to get the right order of the scenes. After doing this I start cutting out the extra parts of the scenes that are not supposed to be there to do this I click on the video I want to cut something off of it. I use the while line and move it to the part I want to cut. Click on the "spilt" option then after it splits I click on the part the got spilt it and click on the "delete" option. I did this until I got rid of all of the extra parts or unneeded parts I thought that wouldn't fit well with the film. This process took around twenty to twenty five minutes to do. That's all I did for that day. Thank you for reading and see you in my next blog to continue editing! 



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