Troubles with editing

For one scene of our music video we have a speeded up section of 2 girls in a park playing on the apparatus. When it came to editing this section I had a lot of trouble of putting some footage double time and speeding it up.
We resolved this by making a new sequence and copy and pasting the footage over to speed it up, and then copy and pasting it back into the video.
Once I found out how to do this it was then easier to speed up all the footage in time with the music.

Final stages of editing

There are only a few blanks left in the video where I need to fill with filming we have previously done. The filming of the park has filled up a big gap that we found really hard to think of an idea that would fit with the music and also the video.
Once i have finished editing the park we have the end section of the song which needs to be edited together. Also a few adjustments will need to be made as we think that some filming is random and doesn't fit with the video.

Stop Motion Practice

Using stop motion in our Music Video

We have decided to use stop motion in our Music Video, because it looks very cool and also effective.
We haven taken many pictures of the same thing with a slight movement, to make the image look like its moving. After I then uploaded all the pictures onto final cut, but found it very tricky to make all the pictures  small and only last a second.

So I found another way of doing this by opening a new sequence.

Then going to Final Cut Express and clicking on User Preferences.










Finally clicking on the editing tab which will allow me to change the images duration.

This helped a lot and made it much easier to get my stop motion pictures the same speed.

Key Frame Exercise

Tom Jones Exercise

Experimenting with stop motion

We want to use stop motion in our music video so i figured it would be a good idea to practice it and see how it comes out. I used the word waterfall and spelt it out by using letters on a key board. So I took pictures of every letter on the key board. I then uploaded the pictures onto Final cut. Then i added the music and cut out the part of the song I needed. After this i used markers to cut to the beat of the music. Fortunately there was 8 markers that I placed and 9 letters so it worked perfectly. So I then put every letter in place in time with the music and this is what I got.

Skills Development Exercise with Markers for Editing

For this exercise we had to work on the programme Final Cut. Firstly we had to import our music so we could later drag the music onto the timeline so we would have a base to work on. We then created a folder on the desktop called 'Pink Panther Exercise' which would hold all of the images we would be using on our video. We then browsed to find all the images which we took on the Mac's photo booth programme of our group. After this we dragged our music onto the timeline, and clicked on show audio waveform so it was easier for us to see the beats of the music we would be working with. Now we were ready to starting marking our music.

We played the song and used the keyboard command of 'M' to mark the beats of the music so we could place our images on the markers to create the effect of the music being perfectly correlated with the visuals. We learnt to drag the pictures to move, extend or shorten them.

Above is our finished result. This will help us in creating our actual music video and will make the process much quicker and easier.