For one of the group projects I was working on during my time on Erasmus, I had to create a short video from scretch. For this course we had to create a light installation and my group decided to experiment with fog, light and projections to create a feeling of a thunder storm. The video that we wanted to project onto the fog had to be timed perfectly with the the fog machine, as the fog machine always needed about 30 seconds to reheat the nozzle.
So I decided to use microsoft clipchamp to create this projection video. I had never really worked with any other video editing software before so I just used clipchamp as it was already installed on my laptop. Luckily, I realized that Clipchamp is very easy to work with.
There is a library of video clips, sounds, and effects where you can search for certain keywords, like in this case „thunder“, „lighting“, „storm“ etc. Through this library I already had a base of clips and sounds which I then topped with some more clips I imported from the internet.
I was able to drag and drop the clips into the timeline and adjust them in the way I liked. I also added different filters and sound effects on top of my existing clips and tried to create smooth transitions between them.
I know that there is probably more professional video editing softwares out there but I personally enjoyed working with Clipchamp and I think it was more than enough for what we needed. The only issue I found was a small green stripe on the right edge of the video that appeared after I exported it. But luckily, we were able to get rid of it.
Below I attached a snippet of the moment we projected the video on top of the smoke for the first time.