The AHA Moment

After having a rough first day of shooting and not knowing if it was a humungous fail, it was time to look at the footage we had. FabuDad had never edited a video in his life. After many tutorials that taught him everything from intro to outro, transitions, overlays, lower thirds, and everything needed for a video to look good, his goal was to create something as cool and fun as what Fabu was already watching other channels. He wanted her to feel proud and happy with the results when she saw herself, hoping this would encourage her to make videos.

FabuDad took several days to edit the first video on our home PC, not a PC designed for editing. He struggled with rendering the 4k video, so he did as best as he could, cutting it so that it would finally render. A 6 min and 42-sec video took nearly all day to render. FabuDad was beyond frustrated but remained hopeful and somehow proud of what we had just done…

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