Rough Cut Editing

After having the whole of Wednesday to edit, we have now done our rough cut of the music video for One Side of The Story. We were very pleased with the footage that we got from filming and it actually worked out better that we had the memory card issue the first week, because the weather was a lot nicer when we went back.

We stuck to conventions and did both performance and narrative in the video of the artist. We have intertwined both aspects throughout the video. 

The first part of editing encountered a problem, because the canvas window in Final Cut wasn't set up in HD, therefore we would lose a lot of the quality when we exported this. After trying to find a way around it we ended up having to start the editing agin, because you can't reset the video quality to clips you've already edited together. Luckily we had only done about 20 seconds when the problem was spotted and we were able to redo that bit fairly quickly. We just had to write down the points in which the original clips had been cut and find the same place in the clips imported to the new Final Cut file. Once that was sorted we didn't encounter any other problems and remembering how to use Final Cut Express wasn't too difficult, because we used it lot last year. 

Now we are working on our ancillary products for which we have decided to do a digipak and an advert for the digipak to go in the magazine. We took the photos for these whilst filming so we can start editing the images in Photoshop straight away.