Editing Software



Now we have all the footage, we have uploaded it all onto the Apple Mac computers and have now started to put our music video together. As a back up we have also uploaded the footage onto our personal laptops. This means that if anything goes wrong with the Apple Mac or if it get damaged or broken, we still have the original copy of our footage. The software that we are used to using from AS level and from GCSE is I Movie. I Movie is a great piece of software and we understand all its functions and processes, however a music video requires more technicality and more presicion in the editing. We have decided to use Final Cut Pro to edit our music video as it a more advanced software- allowing us to edit more accurately, but it is also a similar lay out to I Movie, which means it wont take us long to pick how to things.



Final Cut Pro X

The great aspect about Final Cut Pro X is that it has more advanced features. A few examples of these include being able to add effect and colour schemes like 'hard light' and '50's tv'; also we can edit shots to a more precise detail as we can take as little as 0.01 of a second of at one time. This will prove to be very useful when it comes to lip syncing. Another aspect to Final Cut Pro X that I particualrily like it its ability to layer shots over each other- you can have shot A happening on the left of the screen, simultaneously you can have shot B on the right side. This effect is used commonly in existing music videos so it is definitly a feature that we will experiment with.