The Journey of Editing

After Cordelia and I finally completed all of the filming for our music video, we were ready to upload the footage to Adobe Premier Pro on the school Apple Macs. Completing this step was simple as we previously did this last year with our AS work; however this year we are not using Final Cut Pro. Changing which application we are using to produce the music video was nerve racking at first, however we were both excited to learn, adapt and widen our knowledge.

Prior to using the application, I decided to organise our footage so that it is easily accessible when we are composing our video; therefore, I separated the three different video types into three different folders. Joe's Studio Shots, Talulah Shots and Night Time Shots.
In order to import videos to Adobe Premier Pro, you can either press 'File > Import > Choose Footage' or you can use the shortcut 'Command + I" Before importing, Cordelia and I viewed each and every video which we shot to make sure that the footage is clear and well shot, also to check that we have everything we need and do not need to organise a reshoot. We selected the best shots and started to follow our storyboard. A problem which we first encountered was the size of the clips when they are imported onto the application, we had to 'Click clip > Fit to Scale' in order to zoom out of the clip and view the whole screen. We discovered that some of the videos which were shot freehand (without a tripod) came out slightly shaky and needed to be stabilised; you can do this by clicking 'Effects Control > Stabilisation > Smoothness'
An alternate way to adjust the steadiness of the shot is to change the speed of the shot, this is a simple move to make the footage look professional and smooth. You can do this by 'Right click the video > Speed/Duration > Change the speed from 100 to a lower number in order to slow the clip down' A quicker way to do this is to use the short cut and 'Select the clip > Command + R'






A tool which I found particularly useful was the razor tool, commonly known as the 'trim tool' which adjusts the length of the clip in a quick and easy transition. I used this tool a lot as we filmed more footage than we needed and it was easy to cut out the bits which are not suitable for our music video.