He had shot it himself on a borrowed Sony A7S II. The raw footage was a mess: shaky handheld shots, bad audio from a windy pitch, and one glorious, accidental ten-second clip of Adzo laughing as the sunset turned the red clay behind her into molten gold.
That clip was his anchor.
He opened the Export window. Format: H.264. Preset: . He unchecked "Export Audio" by accident, then swore and checked it again. He looked at the bottom of the window: Estimated File Size: 1.2 GB. Time Remaining: 47 minutes. adobe premiere pro startimes
At 11:00 PM, disaster struck. He added a effect to the master clip, trying to match the harsh midday footage to the golden sunset clip. He pushed the Temperature too far into orange. Adzo’s skin turned the color of a traffic cone. He panicked, reset the panel, and started over. He had shot it himself on a borrowed Sony A7S II
