Editing Video

This week we have been completing our editing assignment, which involved editing a montage of images together. For this assignment we were able to choose images from the background footage we filmed when filming a music video at the end of semester 1.

When I first heard we doing this assignment, I was a bit like “OMG, I can’t do editing!” Even though I had used the editing programme ‘Final Cut Pro’ during my BTEC I’m not really that confident with it and often tried to avoid it. However once I had begun the assignment, I began to relax because I started to remember bits and pieces about what I had learned about Final Cut Pro. It also helped that we were given some useful handouts that helped us use the programme.

One thing I did find quite difficult was choosing the right images, I personally liked the majority of the beach shots, but some of the shots were very shaky where the camera had moved about too quickly and this affected the shot. This meant that I had to cut the images really short, which then meant I had to find more images to make up the two to three minute piece.

Once I had my rough cut, I decided to important the images to see how the whole thing would look and sound together. To be honest I was shocked at how well the music went with the images because before I have always edited the picture to the music but this time I did it the opposite way round. Although most of it linked well together there were areas where I was able to slightly move things around.

However after watching it back a few times I decided to change the images around a bit. I decided to have images of the town, and traffic in the middle of the piece whereas before I had them dotted all about, I felt this looked a lot more structured and wasn’t so confusing to the viewers.

There were times during the edit, I did feel that it wasn’t going too well and I did begin to get really frustrated and fed up with it. But once I watched the final cut back I was pleased with the finished product.