Editing Blog

Today is December the 5th. We were told to do a blog about our editing process. What went into it & if there was any complications. Also the steps we took to editing our music video. We took different steps to do our music video then the commercial we did. For example, for the commercial we used iMovie but for the music video we used Final Cut Pro. Another difference between the two is that the editing process for the commercial was a lot more difficult. We had a lot of technical difficulties because of our software not working. This time we decided to edit the music video at home to avoid any of these complications. So one group member has the Final Cut Pro application on their computer and has dumped all of the footage into that computer. We had to dump film from the drone as well as film from the GoPro. To dump from the drone you have to take the SD card out and place it in an SD card reader that’s attached to the computer. This is the same with the GoPro, just take the SD card out  and place in the reader. We went through all the footage that we took. For each scene we chose which one we linked the best due to different factors like lighting etc. Atleast one of every shot that we took worked so we just went with it. Once the footage was dumped and we knew what footage we were gonna use we had to start editing. Since we’re not there to physically edit with our group member we’re going to either do a Group FaceTime or text in the group chat that we have. Last time we texted our ideas in the group chat cause we couldn’t FaceTime. The editing we got done for that day was editing out all of the sound in the videos. This was important cause we’re going to be playing the song “young, dumb and broke” over the video. So after we muted everything through the app we added the song over it. We didn’t have any difficulties with this. All I did was looked up the song on YouTube; I typed in young, dumb and broke then found the song from the original artist. Then I copied the link that was at the top. I pasted the link into a mp3 converter that I found on google. It converted the link to a usable link so we could put it over the music video. After this we just cut out parts of the scene that we didn’t need. For example, if an actor broke character during the scene at the end then we edited that out. We have to make sure once we’re all finished with our music video to convert it into Mp4 format so I’m keeping that in mind.