Overall editing of our music video

When it comes to editing the footage, we are using a software called 'Final Cut Pro'. This software is thankfully quite straightforward to use and therefore doesn't require much practice or tutorial before fully getting the hang of it. 

Throughout the process of creating and editing our music video in Final Cut, we took some screenshots which explain how to use the Final Cut software. 

We put a section of the clips into the timeline in order to see if they flowed and if they fitted well together, we then made sure that it fitted in with the music and the beat.

We took certain sections from each clip and put it into the timeline. We didn't use all of the footage we had filmed and we chose which section we wanted from each individual clip, as we did not need the full duration of each clip. Previous to the editing, Zach had colour corrected these clips; this therefore sped up the editing process for us once the clips were on Final Cut.

Our timeline began to look rather messy and compact. But thankfully, regardless of the messy display of footage, all the group members were fully aware of the stages we were up to and could understand what was going on.

Once the editing was in full swing, obviously we were getting feedback for what had been produced so far, and as a group we were also able to notice and point out little flaws with the editing so far. One flaw which had been pointed out was the fact that we lacked footage and we needed to use up as much footage as possible in order to cover the full duration of our video. Therefore for certain clips we decided it could be a good idea to slow down some clips in order to fill up screen time and to also fit in with the overall atmosphere of the video. Luckily for us, our clips were filmed at 48fps rather than the standard 24fps which means that the individual frames wont be seen when the clip is slowed down as it was filmed at a higher frame rate.

We decided that the speed of the clip needed to be slower than 50%, but this unfortunately meant that some of the frames then became visible. Thankfully, Zach has good experience and skill with Final Cut and has actually experienced this exact incident before and he therefore knew how to prevent the frame visibility from happening. He used a new tool to Final Cut Pro; the 'Optical Flow' with extrapolates and the bits in between the frames preventing them from being visible.