Editing

Today is editing day, so earlier, I went to e3 to try and edit some of our video. I ran into a few problems because the video and song would not play in Final Cut Express. This is because our video and music files were moved from one Mac to another, since another group were using the Mac we were origionally working on. The problem was that when I tried to play the video and music on Final Cut Express, it came up with a message saying 'some media is missing'. The mp3 file of the music and the video could not be found on the Mac. As a result of this, the video and song were both 'offline'.
When I was in e3 earlier, I figured out how to get the video to play, but the mp3 file for the song is still 'missing', so I will go to e3 later in the day to attempt to solve this problem and continue the editing of the video.

steve's progress

so far i have not done a lot of editing personaly but i have put forward the majority of filming and research + planning. Today i have sat on final cut express and re-arranged the shots into the order stated in my story boards and so far the video is looking a bit rushed and unorganised, although i know this is not the case, so far we have ran into many different problems with cameras, filming techniques and editing styles that actually do not exists which has lead to a few failed shots and the odd smile from our actor when we did not want one.

So far i am very pleased with what has been done and as we have having a planned day off timetable to finish editing i believe this will be finished by thursday evening.

Problem solved!!!!!!

Today we were able to successfully mute the background sound from the origional video recording and we therefore were able to mix the track with our video.

Now, we are able to begin our editing.

Mixing video and audio

I am still in the process of trying to mix the video and the audio together. The video plays fine, but when I attempt to mix it with the mp3 file, it doesn't work. I think this may be because the audio is not yet properly rendered. Another reason for this may be that our music video footage that we currently have on Final Cut Express was recorded with sound. It may be that I need to split the audio from our recorded video in order for it to work.

Today, I will again try to get the audio to play with the video.

Also, we should have the rest of our music video filmed soon so we will be ready to edit.

Music video

Last lesson, we uploaded some of our video footage from our camera onto Final Cut express. Today, I have also transfered our mp3 music file onto Final Cut Express. Right now, the full song and part of our video is on Final Cut Express. In this lesson, I will try to find out how to put the video and song together.

Also, I need to learn how to edit the video properly so that the music video matches the music effectively.

Plan for today!!!!!!!

We are now nearly done with our filming and we just need to film in a couple more locations: the drama studio and somewhere in Newport. I have gone to the drama studio to ask for permission to use it for filming, and we should be able to do some filming during our free periods (2nd, 3rd, and 5th). 

We are planning to get our filming finished very soon and another update will be posted shortly.

final song

on the last Friday before half term we finalized our song. On this day we cut the song down from 6 minutes to 3 minutes and recorded the lyrics onto the song. I then edited the lyrics onto the song and cut them into small samples and spread them over the song. I then put in several effects at the beginning of the first set of lyrics and just before the last set of lyrics. I aim to upload the song to YouTube sometime during this week. this in itself has been a problem because for the past 2 weeks i have been trying different things to upload it without success.