Editing blog

During this class, we got a lot done. Editing went well. I went through all the footage and picked out the best of the clips. This didn’t take very long. I then dragged the best clips down to the editor. I put them in order of what happened too. Once we started to edit, I remembered we needed to get the music. I will talk about this process in the next paragraph. Once we got the music in, I had to cut all the footage down. I also had to make sure all the music fit into the time. We still haven’t finished it so next class I will make sure to finish it. We are actually sending the finished product to the teacher next class. We don’t have too much to do left, though.

As for the music portion, everything went well. During this process, we downloaded the music. Neither of us knew how to download music, so we learned some new solutions. We got it from YouTube and converted it to an mp3 file. We actually had no idea how to download the music so we had to look it up. Once we figured out how to do it, we imported the audio into the video we had edited so far. We also matched up the scenes to fit when the lyrics ended according to our story board. We had to delete the audio from when our clip ended to the actual end of the song. This was so that our song didn’t go over the 1:20 mark. We also had to cut a ton of footage that didn't fit the time.

Despite having more footage than the time, we managed to cut down around half of the footage. The hardest part for this process was matching up the cut scene shot. We had to find all the 5 second clips and make them around 1 second short. I wanted it to match up with the “no I can’t”s in the song. I thought this would be a good and cute idea. we would even have enough clips to make that happen. We haven’t stumbled along any problems yet. I’m very happy everything is going so well. This project is due Friday so hopefully we get everything done. In my opinion, everything is going well and I hope it keeps going well.