Today we began the editing process for our music video. To do this, we created a new project in iMovie, and used a camera and a FireWire to import all of the footage we had captured so far. This became quite complicated, as we had a number of tapes containing different footage, so it was to difficult to determine where all of our footage was or if we were missing anything. This caused problems when we went to review the clips and put them in order, as were unable to find any of the specific clips we needed. To prevent this problem from happening again throughout the remainder of the editing process, we decided to put all the clips we had so far in order, making for an easy point of reference, and allowing speed and ease in finding clips as and when we needed to.
Additionally, due to the abundance of footage we had shot in order to cover all bases, viewpoints and angles, we used up quite a lot of computer memory. We went through and deleted all the off cuts of clips that we knew were definitely unusable in our footage - for example out of focus shots, or accidental recordings taken when we didn't know the camera was turned on. This didn't really have a dramatic effect on the free memory levels however, so we tided and uncluttered the Mac desktop from files that were no longer needed, to allow more room for memory, which we would need when we imported the second lot of footage, later on.
We then began to edit the opening scenes of the video, however as we had not yet imported the song, this was a process that we had to do quite carefully. We did not want to be too specific and detailed in our edits at this point without being able to see how it would link with the track - i.e. we didn't cut too much out of the clips at this point incase they were too short to be used in harmony with the song when we imported it. The only real editing we did to these clips at this stage was to remove all the sections that we knew would be in no way usable, such as shakes and poor lighting. This meant that we would be able to begin to get a picture of the overall finished product, but it still allowed for freedom and flexibility in the finer editing stages.
Additionally, due to the abundance of footage we had shot in order to cover all bases, viewpoints and angles, we used up quite a lot of computer memory. We went through and deleted all the off cuts of clips that we knew were definitely unusable in our footage - for example out of focus shots, or accidental recordings taken when we didn't know the camera was turned on. This didn't really have a dramatic effect on the free memory levels however, so we tided and uncluttered the Mac desktop from files that were no longer needed, to allow more room for memory, which we would need when we imported the second lot of footage, later on.
We then began to edit the opening scenes of the video, however as we had not yet imported the song, this was a process that we had to do quite carefully. We did not want to be too specific and detailed in our edits at this point without being able to see how it would link with the track - i.e. we didn't cut too much out of the clips at this point incase they were too short to be used in harmony with the song when we imported it. The only real editing we did to these clips at this stage was to remove all the sections that we knew would be in no way usable, such as shakes and poor lighting. This meant that we would be able to begin to get a picture of the overall finished product, but it still allowed for freedom and flexibility in the finer editing stages.
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