Editing Blog

Last class and the class before that, my partner and I edited our music video. First, we used an SD card reader and plugged it into the computer. We then dumped all of our footage onto the computer. I made sure to also put the footage on Google Drive just in case something happened. After that, we tried to open Pinnacle Studios. We waited for it to load, and it wasn't responding. This had happened before, and last time we had to restart the computer. We tried that, and Pinnacle studios still didn't respond. Because of this, we decided to get another computer. We started it and tried to open Pinnacle Studios again.

Thankfully, it worked on this computer. The only problem was that because it was a different computer, the footage we dumped on the desktop wasn't there. In this scenario, I was very glad that I had decided to upload the footage onto Google Drive. Because of this, we were able to move the footage back onto the desktop. We also were able to get our song (the audio) ready to put into Pinnacle Studios. Unfortunately, by this time it was time to switch classes so we had to stop editing for now. We came back the next class and had to repeat the same footage transferring process because we used a different computer. Once that was done, we were able to import our footage and audio into Pinnacle studios. We had to go through all of our takes and find the right ones we wanted to use because each scene had multiple takes. We referred to our storyboard and began putting the clips in order.

After we put all the clips in order, we put in the audio. We had to trim it because our videos had to be 1:05-1:15 minutes long instead of the full song. With the full clips of all of our footage, we had more footage then audio amount. Because of this, we had to trim a few scenes. This was fine because we were planning on trimming things anyways. After we trimmed all of our footage, it was time for things like effects and transitions. Our music video had a lot of POV shots so we used the fade in or fade out transition in between those scenes. This was to simulate blinking, or flashing through memories. We also decided to fade the audio out at the end of the video. Overall, I am very content with how the video turned out as well as the editing process.