Music Video Editing blog.

This past week we started editing our music videos. We got laptops out and logged in. We had to get a SD card reader to import the videos. We plugged it in and downloaded the videos. The files had to be unzipped since when we downloaded it the videos were in a zip file. Then we opened the new folder we created and imported the videos to the editing software. From there we just had to select which ones to use. We had shot a lot of takes so we had a lot of footage to choose from. Sadly the next day after importing the footage we couldn't remember which computer we had used to start the editing. Thankfully we hadn't done much yet so we just grabbed a new computer and uploaded the videos again.
Then came putting the song into the video. Getting the audio was pretty hard since we had to rely on youtube and other websites to get it. We had to go on a youtube to mp3 website to download the audio. I had trouble with that and eventually had to get the teacher to help us. Eventually we got it and put the audio in the program. After that we started putting footage into the video itself. As I stated before, we had some takes to choose from so this took a bit of time. I had to make sure that we put in usable footage and that we didn't mistakingly put the wrong clip in. After that I had to organize the order of the clips. That didn't take much time and soon we were on to editing length and other effects.
Editing the length of the clips was pretty tricky since we had to make some of the scenes match up with the lyrics of the song. In some parts the timing was a bit off so we had to fix that. When matching up the clips to the lyrics we realized that there was a lot of space without footage. So I had to improvise and use footage from the trampoline scene we filmed. We used one different from the one in the beginning of the film. It actually turned out working perfect where we needed it. To trim the clips I just cut off the parts i didn't need and deleted them. After that, we just needed to add transitions and effects. I attempted adding slow motion for the first clip but it was pretty hard to do it. We also added a dissolve transition on a few clips as well. Then we exported it and turned it in.