Editing

After getting back the raw footage from my video shoot, last week and this week I have been editing. I started off by receiving separate video files for each scene shot. To begin with these were all imported into Final Cut Pro the program we are using to edit our promo videos. From here I checked each of these videos one by one in the player to remind myself what the scenes comprised of. To help myself later when I wanted to make them into a time line and reorder the scenes to match my pre-production I then renamed all the separate scenes. Then I dragged them onto the timeline in Final Cut in the right order, the rest of my first week time was spent cutting the scenes, getting rid of any excess footage. There was extra filmed footage before and after some of the scenes where we were getting into position, checking the angle, checking the sound etc and some scenes were filmed that were not needed in the final timeline.

For the second week I focused on adding extra titles and effects. Starting off I took two of the separate video clips that were imported in to Final Cut and placed one above the other in the timeline. This allowed me to do a video in video effect that was planned in my timeline. I set some key frames at the start and end of the video in video so I could make the video zoom into a frame and at the end shrink away at the end. Then I added some text titles at the beginning of the video to introduce it. This is done in a similar way with text being placed above the video clip in the timeline. I experimented with some of the texts when adding, trying scrolling text and text in a typewriter style. Also I made a screen picture in Illustrator showing the company logo and some contact details to import and show at the end of the video.

There's still some effects id like to add, I want to add some music and sound effects to parts of the video and  I want to add some examples of media work I have done as embedded pictures in the video.

Here are some pictures of the video and timeline in Final Cut Pro.