Editing Music Video Blog

Editing the music video was a very tedious process. After dumping and importing the footage, I had to lay out the scenes in order. I had to go through several shots before choosing the right scenes. Once I did that, I downloaded the soundtrack and converted it to mp3. For one scene, I created a split screen for the knocking scene. I had to cut the upper scene because it lasted longer than the scene below. The song was difficult to align perfectly with the shots. I had to do a lot of cutting throughout the song. Even more so, I had to cut nearly each scene to go along with the song. Some scenes were even slowed down by adjusting the speed.

A major adjustment that needed to be done was the phone clips. Some of the shots were filmed on my phone. Due to this, we had to convert the phone video into and mp4 video. Then, once it was imported into Pinnacle studios, the videos were horizontal and not vertically framed. To try and fix this a bit, I had to edit the horizontal size from the effects editor and fix the cropping. However, the more horizontal the shot became, the more the graphics decreased in quality. Even more so, there was still a black border around the shot. The next major thing was the timing with the song and the actual clip itself. Most of the actions that played out did not align with the song. As a result, I had to slow down many shots by nearly 40%.

More scenes still need to be slowed to match with the song. Due to the complexity of this, the song does have to be cut in certain parts to catch up with the actions. If the scenes are too slowed down then they wouldn’t look good once played back. The last couple slides however don’t need an exact time frame for the song. This is mainly because the chorus follows along with the rest of the dancing regardless. The only thing left to edit is to fix some of the lighting. Due to the filming being shot over the course of different days and different hours of the day, the lighting is not all the same. This is why it was important to edit the lighting so it transitions smoothly. The last thing I made sure to do was to add some dissolving transitions for certain scenes. The end shot will feature the Sunshine title to tie the whole music video together.