The Editing Begins

Despite not having a digital copy of the song. I have begun to edit the video by using the sound that was recorded on the camera. This means that I can just sync up and replace the camera sound with the sound track later on. I have started off by putting together the intro, which consists of the band walking into the music room and getting set up. I have cut between the two shots of them walking in to create a smooth transition. As they begin to set up, I cut to a shot of the lead singer plugging in his amp. I then jumped back to the shot of them getting ready. Once they are ready, it jumps to a close up shot of the lead singer saying "LET'S GO!!".

So far that is all the editing that has been done. The introduction has been completed. I am pleased with it, but I think it would look more interesting if we would have taken more close up shots and cut away shots of the band getting ready. Unfortunately, at this stage, we don't have enough time to take anymore shots, the band are busy revising for their exams and organizing another filming day would be too much hassle. We have no choice but to plow on with the editing and do the best we can.

During the editing, two problems have arisen. I started off by editing the introduction at home on my own computer, I didn't realize that I was using a different version of Final Cut (the editing software) to the version they have at college. When I tried to use open my file in the college's Final Cut, it said that the file I was trying to upload was to new. This meant I had to re edit the introduction on the college laptop. The second problem that has occurred is to do with the rendering time. The laptops that we are using are slightly out of date, which means that rendering takes a very long time. During todays lesson I have had to wait over an hour for clips to render. This is slowing drastically slowing down the editing process.