From the start of the year up until now, I feel that I have improved in editing in the field of music videos. Last year, I was editing for Thriller films, and this year for music videos. I'm quite sure that editing for music videos involves much more precision, time and attention to detail. The reason being is that music video editing requires marking base tracks in time with the beat of a song, ensuring base tracks are in sync, creating the sequence in which unwanted cuts are cleared and keeping the scenes left to create the music videos. Once satisfied with the sequence, it then allows for an opportunity to fine tune and tweak the sequence to ensure smoothness and remove any other unwanted details. This year, I had discovered there are a wide variety of filters and correctors to use for the music video, such as lighting correction as we had some dark shots during filming at Millenium bridge.
I had originally marked each base track against the beat of the song played when the footage was recorded, and then matched it up with the markers which was marked in time with the beat of the song too. When I had edited for the rough cut, I found that colouring markers a different colour at a particular sound or word gave an easy cue to match up base tracks with the actual song which would accompany the visuals.
Below I have included images of Final Cut Pro, the programme which we had used to edit the rough cut and the music video.
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| Below the two viewers is the sequence panel, and this was one of the most important features in terms of matching up base tracks and soundtrack, clearing scenes and arranging clips how we had wanted |
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| A close up shot of the sequence, along with the red markers used to match up base tracks with the soundtracks. I believe markers are a very useful feature in this editing package. |
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