Editing a music video

This was the making of the multi cam for our music videos. This would help auto sync and match up the vocals within these scenes with the actual song.  We selected all clips with both visual and audio within them. We know how to tell if they had both because the purple box shows just visuals and the green lines are just audio. So purple boxes with the green lines within them show they have both. We selected these all and right clicked which brought down a drop menu. Within the drop menu was the option to create the muiltcam. This had features which helped sync the audio clips together. This would open on the with all the clips there and within the content files, there will be a file that has the muilticam editing. You would right click on this and open it in a new timeline.   

When its in a new timeline, you’d click the spanner in the bar just above the time line and active the multicam. This begins up small windows with the footage in it and some blank spaces. You then right click the red boxes and go to overlay settings if you wish. This will number the boxes so if you are changing between different footage using the keyboard, then when you type the numbers in you know what correlates to what box. Alternatively, you can use the mouse to click on the boxes to change. Both do the same thing although I found using the mouse easier, so I could look at the screen more. You’d play the mastercam footage and this is where you use the footage to edit to the song using the visuals and beat.    

Sometimes when editing the tools at the side of the timeline become useful tools to edit within different ways. The tool selected was the ripple tool and this was useful as it allows you to drag to clips within changing the other clips. This means if the Mastercam footage ended and the screen went black then you can use this to drag the next footage to replace the footage that was lost. It also helps with continuity within other shots as the different camera angles used, if you were to cut between two shots directly after each other and it was telling a narrative then the ripple tool will help you match the start and end of the two scenes, so the flow of action is continuous. 

This is a time marker, and this helps you add visual footage to the timeline without changing the sync of the other footage. This would be used to edit to the beat of the song and then once they were placed within the timeline, you would go to the footage and select which folder you would like to use the footage from. You would open the folder and upon opening it two things can happen. The footage could either open with the previews of each clip, so you can see what is in each clip and this will help to order the footage or select only the very few ones you wish to have, or it will stay within text form. If tis text form and you wish to see the previews, then the box where the footage is in has an option at the bottom called free mode which will change the text to the boxes. Once you have decided what footage you want and what order then select all that footage and click on the automate to sequence function. This will add this to your timeline and replace the footage from the first-time marker you placed. This adds the different layers of footage you can have to the song while still keeping in time with the beat.    

This is speed duration of this boxing clip which we used. To access this, you would select the clip you wish to alter the speed of and right click on it. Then within the drop-down menu, there will be multiple things you can change within the clip, but you will see an option for the speed duration. Click on that and the box above will appear. This clip was already altered by the band, so we wanted to speed up the clip of them boxing so we increased the number from 10 percent to 150 percent meaning the clip went faster. If we were slowing down the clip, then we would change the numbers from between 0 and 100 for example 50 percent. If we wanted to reverse the clip so the footage went in reverse, then we would put minus numbers with the speed still working the same.   

This is the colour wheel which could change the colour of certain aspects within the frame. This was accessed by clicking on the colour work space at the top where the editing work space is. We looked for what forage we wanted to change a certain colour about and select it by clicking on it. The colour wheel at the side would change some colours within the scene such as highlighting Dan with the red like shown above. There are also options to change the shadows and type of picture shown through different options. You would click on the arrows and they would open new features. There is an option which takes longer than just using the colour wheel but that allows you to select a certain object within the screen and using the colour wheel when you feel like you have got everything then change the colour to what you desire. This can have multiple effects within the scene as it can add warmth or coldness to the shot.      

This was a point within the multicam where the footage had run out, so we used the other foot age to fill the gap left behind. In this process we used an overlap which has the effect of playing tow clips over each other at different opacity levels. We did this by simply using two different tracks. Tracks are the different lane where footage and audio can go. For example, above we can see the audio is on the first audio track and the multicam footage is on the first video track. And the track above is the second this allows for overlapping footage and using the opacity pen, the footage at the time can have lower opacity meaning both clips can be played over each other.  

The opacity pen was used here again as we used it to fade out both the music and footage to black as the songs was ending. This can be used for fade ins as well. The opacity pen can be found near the ripple tool. To use the pen, you simply click the icon of the pen and go to the clips you want to change the opacity for. This can be useful for the three techniques of overlapping, fade-ins and fade-outs. You click on the clip you want to apply the effect to and a dot on a line will appear. Dragging this up and down will change the opacity of the piece making it the overlapping effect. To do fade-ins and fade-outs, you click else where on the line and it adds a new dot, this dot can be place at the end or beginning of the clip. If its at the beginning then a fade-in has been created and at the end of the clip, the fade-out has been created.   

The technique I used to edit the footage was the razor. This allowed use to cut the clips up and use them to edit in unique ways. The razor tool can be found under the ripple tool and it cuts up a clip into different sections. This allowed us to flash between different scenes without putting the clip onto the timeline twice. This is a useful technique as it allows us to have quick cuts between different clips and have an easier way to cut up clips. 

The still from above is when the song became out of sync. To fix this we went to the footage files and used the performances from them to cover up the mistakes made with the clips. This allowed us to be creative with match on action and cutting between clips effectively. We also used other techniques like the opacity pen to cut from the performance clips back to the clips with vocals in. the combination of techniques allows for creative shots.