Editing in Premiere Pro
The first step of the editing process required importing all of my final pieces of footage into Adobe's editing program, Premiere Pro CS5. As I had already renamed my footage in finder the shots where already in the correct order, this allowed me to quickly get on with cutting my footage down to the correct lengths.
Ensuring that my video matched the length of my track was important as I wanted to ensure that my cuts were in sync with the beat of music, the consequence of not having enough footage would be devastating as a large areas of the video would be a blank screen. Having too much footage would not be an issue though as I could cut out unessential scenes. Before inserting any footage I downloaded my track and imported it into Premiere Pro placing it in an audio layer, an advantage of using premiere pro is that it clearly display's the audios waveform this was a huge advantage to me as I had used the waveform in the planning stage to arrange the order of my shots.
Initial import:
This showed me the length of the music, this then allowed me to import the rest of my footage. How I found that completely uncut, the footage was over twice as long as the actual song and contained large periods of unwanted material this meant I had to remove some shots reorganise others and cut some down thus creating an offline edit.
Tools:
To create my offline edit I used the basic tools provided by premiere pro to trim down footage and place it in the correct order.
The most commonly used tool to trim down clips is the razor tool (shortcut C) as this allows you to cut clips in half. The track selection tool (shortcut A) then allows you to move this footage freely along the timeline, allowing you to rearrange clip order.
If you want to extend a clip after cutting it then you can use the ripple edit tool to adjust an edit point and move other clips in the timeline to compensate. An alternative to this is the rolling edit tool which adjusts an edit point between two clips without affecting the rest of the timeline.
Relating to Storyboard and Shot List:
When editing the footage it was important for me to stick to my original plans that I had created in the storyboard and shot list. Thanks to the way I had renamed the clips everything was in exactly the same order as I had planned in the storyboard apart from the 2D Graphic scenes.
Ensuring that my video matched the length of my track was important as I wanted to ensure that my cuts were in sync with the beat of music, the consequence of not having enough footage would be devastating as a large areas of the video would be a blank screen. Having too much footage would not be an issue though as I could cut out unessential scenes. Before inserting any footage I downloaded my track and imported it into Premiere Pro placing it in an audio layer, an advantage of using premiere pro is that it clearly display's the audios waveform this was a huge advantage to me as I had used the waveform in the planning stage to arrange the order of my shots.
Initial import:
This showed me the length of the music, this then allowed me to import the rest of my footage. How I found that completely uncut, the footage was over twice as long as the actual song and contained large periods of unwanted material this meant I had to remove some shots reorganise others and cut some down thus creating an offline edit.
Offline Edit:
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Tools:
To create my offline edit I used the basic tools provided by premiere pro to trim down footage and place it in the correct order.
The most commonly used tool to trim down clips is the razor tool (shortcut C) as this allows you to cut clips in half. The track selection tool (shortcut A) then allows you to move this footage freely along the timeline, allowing you to rearrange clip order.
If you want to extend a clip after cutting it then you can use the ripple edit tool to adjust an edit point and move other clips in the timeline to compensate. An alternative to this is the rolling edit tool which adjusts an edit point between two clips without affecting the rest of the timeline.
Relating to Storyboard and Shot List:
When editing the footage it was important for me to stick to my original plans that I had created in the storyboard and shot list. Thanks to the way I had renamed the clips everything was in exactly the same order as I had planned in the storyboard apart from the 2D Graphic scenes.
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