CHAPTER 8

EDITING AERIAL VIDEO

AERIAL VIDEO IS VERY EXCITING! It’s the closest you can come to flying without, um, actually flying. In this chapter we are going to look at some of the basics of editing aerial footage. This is not intended to be a “how to edit video” chapter, because there just isn’t space for 400 pages on video editing. Many good resources already exist, and it would be impossible to cover all the possible video editing packages. You could be using iMovie, GoPro Studio, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, or even Photoshop.

Because it’s my video editor of choice, I’m going to be using Adobe Premiere Pro. Remember that this isn’t a Premiere Pro tutorial; it’s a video editing tutorial, and I hope to share ...

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