Editing The Music Video

In AICE Media Studies this week we worked on editing our video. As of right now we are not actually done with our editing, but we are very close to being complete. It's just me and Andrew right now and I have better knowledge of how to work the software. While I work on the video itself, Andrew interjects every now and then with his own ideas. My job was mainly doing the editing itself. First thing that I did was have Luc send me the videos from his phone to my phone. I then saved the videos into my camera roll and made sure they were kept in there. The reason we have it being sent from a phone is because, as I mentioned in our first blog, we forgot to bring a memory card to our recording session. Instead of using the camera, me, Andrew, and Luc decided to use Luc's IPhone 10 which has very good quality and sound. After I saved the takes into my phone, I then emailed them to myself. I did this so I had an easy and re-accessible way to get to the videos incase I needed them again. After emailing the footage to myself, I made the folder on our desktop and transported the footage from my email to the folder by downloading it to the computer. Then we finally began using the Pinnacle Studios software. Once I opened it, I imported all of my footage into the program, let it load, and began editing. I moved the first scene into AV Track 1 and then realized that I needed to find the mp3. file for Piano Man and move it also into Pinnacle Studios. I looked for it on Google by searching "Piano Man Free Download." I clicked on the first link that was displayed and clicked download on that page. I downloaded it right into the "Music Video" folder and worked from there. We imported the mp3 file and added it into AV Track 2 and muted the vision on the video. We then worked on the video by adding transitions. I feel like the only thing we really needed were transitions because we didn't really want anything extra in our video. We added scene by scene into the AV Track 1 and timed it well with the music. We put each scene where we felt it fit with the music. For example, in the beginning when Billy Joel is playing the introduction with the piano and harmonica, we used a scene that fit that music. The scene we used was a shot of Luc's hand playing the piano. We followed that up with a shot of Andrew blowing into the harmonica. The transition we used was cross dissolve. We put it in every scene by right clicking on the scene that was already in the AV Track 1 and clicking Add Transition. After that we clicked Transition In and chose cross dissolve, because, in my opinion it is the best transition and the cleanest.