Production for Music Video: Skills Development (New Editing Skills)

Editing the Music Video has taught me new editing skills and techniques that either produce effects that I could not produce in AS, or create the same desired effect but in a less time consuming way. For example, the image below shows how I used the controls in the motion section to desaturate the low tones in order to enhance the overall filter. In AS I was new to these features, therefore if I was to add an effect I would have probably gone for softer effects instead of the harsher ones so that I did not have to adjusted them to a great extent and risk ruining the project. Also, I realised that using the controls over the clips was the easiest way to adjust the clips.

The image below is another example of how I enhanced my editing skills by finding faster methods of editing, but achieving the same result. I learned this year how to add an adjusted filter to multiple clips at the same time, instead of adding the effect to each clip individually and then adjusting each clip to the same percentage. This allowed me to desaturate all the narrative footage to 74% at the same time, which then meant I had time to focus on effects that require more attention and detail, like the Gausian Blur at the beginning of the video.

I also experimented with effects such as SmoothCam. As the beginning of our video starts with the camera trailing up a graffitied wall, we tried to use SmoothCam to make this movement as smooth as possible. Even though we were advised not to use SmoothCam in the end because our footage did not need it, I still think this was valuable because I learnt about what more of the filters could do to the footage. Therefore next time I use Final Cut Pro, I will have a better idea of what each filter can do and thus can plan what possible filters to use from the very beginning.