Editing The Music Video

Editing The Music Video

Although I have enjoyed making my music video, I have found that, in my opinion, the editing process has been, without a shadow of a doubt, the hardest part. I think this is because of two things:

Firstly, I want my music video to be as good as I can make 
it.

This is due to the fact that my AS results weren't as good as I had hoped, and so I feel I need to prove that last years results aren't reflective of me and the effort I have put in.

Secondly, the song I am using, needs to be edited well, because of the beat of the song. 


From my rough cut you can already see that I have started trying to edit to the beat but in some parts I have struggled to keep up with the quick beats of the chorus. In the first chorus, some of my shots are too quick or too slow. But thankfully this is the reason that it is only my rough cut and I am still able to improve my video.

Editing my music video has proved difficult time and time again for me during this project. This is down to the fact that the software, Adobe Premiere Pro, is a new software (as of this year) and is very complex. The software has a lot of different functions available for me to use. Above, is a screen shot of the set up of Adobe Premiere Pro, when you start up a new project. In my opinion this is a really great editing software, it allows you to do a lot of things, all in one programme.


Despite the difficulties of editing, I have very much enjoyed editing my music video !!

Below is a screen grab of some of what I have edited, you can see that for just a few seconds of the song, I have had to include a lot of different shots.

Above, in the window on the left, is something I really do like about Adobe Premiere Pro; Which is the fact that before adding the footage into the editing area, you can view the footage in another window, so you can decide if that particular footage is what you desire. I think this is a really helpful part of the software because it allow me to decipher which footage I have a need for.

Something else I like about this software is the fact that you can alter the speed/duration of clips, which is something that I required, as some of the shots I wanted to include, in my music video, were far too long. So what I decided to do was to alter the speed/duration of the clips. Below are screen grabs of what my clips was like before the alteration, and after I had changed the speed.