Editing Blog

My partner Kaitlyn and I spent the last two classes editing our music video. We selected our shots first. We decided to use our storyboard to help us remember the correct order. This process took about 30 minutes. Then, we had to adjust each clip. Since both of us were in the video, one person had to press record and the go to their spot. Therefore, we had to cut out a lot of the beginning of most clips. We also had to trim the ends for the same reason. Once all of the videos were cut to the appropriate length, the video was too long. Instead of the video being 1 minute and 15 seconds, the video was about 1 minute and 20 seconds long.

In addition to this problem, the first clip was also sideways. This was the clip with the pan that I filmed on my phone. We spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to flip it. Unfortunately, there was no button that said "rotation" and it was extremely difficult to find. We had to select the clip, and open the effects editor. Then we had to select effects and press 2D. Once we pressed that, a sidebar appeared that said "rotation". I typed in 270 degrees to flip it so it would match the other videos. We then pressed save changes, and watched the video. About 15 seconds later, our computer died.

For the phone call scenes, we had to change the color. The scenes are supposed to be flashbacks, so we made it black and white. We then made some of the clips even shorter. We had to do this because our video was about 5 seconds too long. Once this was completed, we detached the original audio. We were afraid that the original audio would play with the music. Luckily, it didn't take long to detach. Once this process was completed, we inserted the audio. The audio was also too long, so we had to fit it to scale. We finished the editing process, and will look over our work next class.