Editing the video wasn't as hard as I'd imagined but it definitely took a lot of time. There were a few tricks that I picked up (like the only way to import a GIF into a video timeline was to convert it to a mp4 first), but mostly what I learned was around planning (or over-planning to be precise).
My script was good, my storyboard had a plan for all my scenes but what I didn't account for was planning for time. Our video has to be between 1:30 and 3:00 minutes long and I didn't understand what that meant in terms of planning. I had a succinct plan and I thought it would be about right for time. I didn't time my script because sections of it were illustrative/visual only. In the end, I fell a little short and had to go back and add in an extra scene to make up time. I would have liked more shots of the game-play stop-animation but ran out of time to go back and shoot more of this (the set-up and filming time were quite long for this section).
Lessons learned: Shoot more footage than you need. If you only shoot exactly what you need - you may run short!
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