Making of music video: Editing the music video with final cut pro - the basics

 So now we've got all the filming done and dusted, on to the more tricky part, which was editing. To make things more easier and logical for us, we put our 3 main base tracks of the the artist doing the performance in the bottom of the editing box, and then we began to slowly lay our other clips on top where we wanted them to show up.

We want our video to look quite interesting and different, so we plan to use a LOT of effects to make our video stand out, such as adding video filters and changing the speed of our clips. However, one problem we encountered with changing the speed of our video, is that it had a tendency to shift the WHOLE video out of sync, so my mouth was completely off sync with the song, especially when doing slow motion as it lengthened the clip and pushed the others away. Likewise, if we sped up the clips we had to use more footage as it made the clip really short, so we had to do that to compensate.

The dancing scene in our video proved difficult to edit, as we had to employ some of the techniques we used in AS for our thrillers in A2 - we had to matchcut the dancing so that the moves flowed perfectly. We managed to do that, however we encountered a few problems. The first issue, was that some of the clips were just too dark, I don't think it looked good. We will try to brighten it up, but we'll see if we have any further use for them. The second problem was that we put too many long shot clips of the dancers, so the dancing didn't have much interest in the video - it could have looked better. we will definitely try to rectify this.

So far, it's going pretty good, I shall upload more pictures soon!

Until then!

Stephanie