Editing our final music video has taken a long time but we are very happy with the results. We have used a wide range of editing techniques and learnt lots of new skills through this process.
Some examples of editing techniques that we used in final cut express which we were already familiar with are:
- Cutting clips with the razor blade tool
- Cropping and zooming in on clips using the motion tab on individual clips
- Using transitions to make the cuts to different clips smoother; such as the dissolve in and out tool
- Placing two clips together at the same time and turning down the opacity on both to create a doubling and ghosting quality
- Using the modify > speed tool to slow down or speed up clips
- Syncing the clips with the music by pausing both where we wanted to sync them and using the letter M to mark the points, so that our lip syncing looked professional
- Making still images flash by cropping lots of small clips and placing them right next to each other
- Getting rid of distracting things around our clips such as a line at the bottom of the wall, by selecting the clip and then dragging it downwards or upwards on the sequence 1 screen
- Rendering our video
Some examples of final cut techniques that we were not familiar with before making this video; but we learnt and used this time:
- Fading clips in/out by marking two points on the lines of the clips with the pen tool and then dragging them downwards or upwards
- Editing the colours, the brightness/contrast and the saturation of our clips to make them look more professional by selecting a clip and then using the effects > video filters > colour correction > colour corrector tools
- Flipping an image completely around so that it is like a mirror image of the original, by selecting a clip and then using the effects > video filters > perspective > flop tool
- Mirroring one clip on itself so that there is a reflection one side of the clip that moves along with the original, by selecting a clip and using the effects > video filters > perspective tool
- Making an image pulse inwards and outwards on the beat, by cutting the clip into a few smaller clips, and cropping some of the clips so that they are zoomed in on and leaving the other clips zoomed out
- Creating a split screen effect from one clip to another by cropping both clips to the right or the left so that they are exactly at the point we need (e.g. cropped so that our hands are at the edge of the screen ready to push forwards) and using an edge wipe transition between the clips so that one wipes over the next
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