Editing

Today, 12/4, we finished editing our music video. After a few hours of long work, we finally finished editing. We are very pleased with the overall outcome of the video. Even though we couldn’t use the professional camera that we signed out from the class, all of the clips turned out good, just the way we had planned. I think that the camera on the iphone that we had used to film was better quality than the camera we signed out. We used this camera for the commercial, and i think our music video overall turned out better. There were some complications but the finished product did not show them. The whole process took about 4 weeks of planning, storyboarding, filming and editing. The editing portion did not go exactly as planned, however. We learned to overcome this and complete our video either way.
One of the complications that we faced was with the music. The song that we had planned to put into our music video was Sugar, by Robin Schultz. Because we couldn’t use the camera and we used the iphone to film, it was easier for us to use imovie instead of pinnacle studios. It would have been really difficult for us to transport all of the clips on our phone to the computer for pinnacle studios. With imovie, we were easily able to transport our clips onto the application. Once they were transferred onto imovie, we needed to add sound first. If we added sound after we edited, the clips wouldn’t match up with the words in the song. So once the clips were uploaded, the next step was to import the song into the video. When I clicked the sound button to import the song, it said that the song was DRM protected. This means that we could not import the sound onto the video. The solution that we thought of was to do a voice over of the song playing on someone else’s phone and insert it into the video. This worked out perfectly fine and the sound sounded completely normal.
Another issue that we had faced when editing the video was that I could not figure out how to manage the transformations. I had envisioned the video to have transitions between clips that fade into one another. When I began editing, the only transition that it would allow was to just cut into each new clip. I didn't think that this looked smooth and consistent. I figured out that in order for imovie to allow me to use the dissolve transition, I needed to insert each clip individually. This clearly took much more time that my previous method, but the overall product turned out better. Even though we faced multiple complications, we are pleased by the way that the product turned out. Overall, the editing process was long and tedious, but the finished music video was a product of good quality and planning.