LOL. It seems like I spent as much time editing ( and learning ) as I spent on the trip.Same thing with Resolve. The rabbit hole goes so deep when you get into video; there are just so many ways to do things and so many different functions and features of a modern video editor, it's just a "wow" as you start to wade in. Gives you a heck of an appreciation for what they do in Hollywood every day, it's not nearly as easy one might expect.
Just to give an example, when you want to go from one clip to another, it's called (in Resolve anyway), a transition. Most people think of it as a fade out/in.
OK, which transition, there are 100 of them. Wipes; shapes, iris, fade, fade to color.
Now, out of the 100 options, we pick a simple wipe.
Then the next option blizzard.
How fast; which direction, a linear speed or should it speed up/down as it plays? Oh, none of those? OK, here's a graph, draw the curve you'd like for how the transition should come in and out. What color should we use? Want to fade the edge of the transition? How much?
Oh, you have text up? Should that transition too? Same transition or should we run 2 at the same time.
Oh, there's an audio track? How would you like to transition that? At the same time as the video transition? Want to mix another track in?
It's just like "OMG". I just wanted to put two files together please!!
Doug