Editing Process Week 2

I sorted the sound file during the week and uploaded it again onto Final cut pro. Then I began to edit the footage. I started by syncing some of the long performance shots up so that I could use this as a base to intercut other shots in between to start with until I found better or more appropriate shots to replace some of the long performance shots. Also by syncing a long performance shot with the music it meant that any other shots that I inserted I would be able to sync up to the performance shot. This is called lip-syncing and is one of the pop promo blue print conventions that as a group we have decided to use and develop. Syncing the long performance shots was easy enough because I had marked, using markers, the significant beats in the music that we could edit to the week before. The way I began to edit was by picking a shot out placing a marker where the same part of the song started in the clip as in the sound track so that when I dragged the shot onto the time line I could sync it effortlessly. When filming on the shoot day we also recorded sound, this meant each clip had sound with it. So that the sound track quality wasn’t affected I deleted the sound clip that went with each footage clip. I could find the sound clip on the sound bar. I did this process with 5 clips that went from the beginning of the video to the end. This is when it began to get interesting. I’ve decided to edit in all of the performance shots that we want and then start to replace some of the shots with concept shots. This is just so it doesn’t get confusing. By editing to the significant beats it meant that the promo has an pleasing rhythm and cutting pace.