Music Video Editing

Whilst editing my music video I took some screenshots, using the "Prnt Sc (Print Screen)" button, to show the process an explain how I did what I did. They are shown below.

My first screenshot is a zoomed out shot to present all the cuts I made to make the transitions between shots match the tempo and beats of the music. This was taken half way through editing so there was a lot more once I had finished. To the left you can see a list of images, these are the shots I imported in to the editing software from the camera. At the top right is a singular image of the main character walking. This allowed me to watch the video as I was editing to make sure everything was how I wanted it.

This second screenshot shows how I edited the song itself to shorter the duration of the video and trying to make sure the music still smoothly blended together. There was a segment of the song that increased the length whilst I had nothing to place in that area. The beats of the music around this area where duplicated from the previous line of lyrics so I removed this area. As it was repeated I was able to make the music smoothly continue without making it obvious some of the song had been cut out.

In this shot you can also set a closer up view of some of the cutting I did to make the transitions match the beats of the music

This clip shows a technique I used to edit the length of some shots. While for most shots I used the crop tool to edit the shots to my desired size, for some others I was able to drag the clip along when a red bar popped up as I scrolled my mouse over it. This allowed me to make the shot the exact length I needed it to be by re-adding cropped out areas.

The next tool I used was called "Scale to Frame Size". When imported in to the editing software the clips I had filmed were cropped to fit the size of the editing screen. By using the Scale to Frame Size tool, the shots returned to the original size and fitted everything in, rather than being cropped and missing out vital parts of the video. Scale to Frame size is found under the "Video Options" section in the "Clip" drop down bar.

This screenshot shows the tool I to create my time-lapse. The shot was originally 1 hour long but by increasing the speed on the editing software I was able to create a time-lapse and insert it at the beginning of my video. By increasing the speed from 100 to 10000 the clip almost doubled in speed, which I then cropped to fit the gap at the start of my music video.