Editing the music video

Split Screen

Then the video had to be double clicked on to get the video effects panel, in the panel there is a scale option. This is usually at 100 showing that the video fits the screen perfectly. To make the video smaller the scale was decrease to 50 on both videos.

The first thing we had to make sure when creating the split screen was that both videos had to be on the timeline. The videos had to be put on separate rows so that they could both be played and shown at the same time.

Once both of the videos scales were decreased to 50, we move on video the to top left-hand corner and the other video to the bottom right hand corner. This screen clipping shows how the split screen looked like when both of the videos were resized and put into the different layers in the timeline.

Rewind effect To create the rewind effect, the opening scene of Hakan meeting Hilary had to be edited and exported first. The exported file was then imported into the library so that this could be rewinded as one piece altogether.

As we then wanted the main actors paused over the top of the rewinding video, we imported images into the library.

We put the clip on the timeline and then right clicked on the clip. This gave us many options. However, the option needed was “speed/duration”. Once this option was clicked on we changed the speed of the video. It was increase to 150 and then the option “reverse speed” was clicked on; this speeded up the clip as well as reversing it.

Transitions

These are the different layers used when creating the rewind effect. The two top layers are the images. They had to be put on the top layers so that they can be shown on top of the video. The opacity of the two images was decreased so that the video underneath would be shown.The bottom layer was the rewind sound.The rewind sound was also added so that it would be more affective as it rewinds. The two middle layers in blue are the video layers that have already been rewinded.

This screen clipping shows how the two images are transparent on top of the video that carries on playing.

We added transitions between each clip so that the video could run smoothly and not look like it was cut suddenly. The transitions are found in the effects panel. We clicked on “video transition” to get all the different transitions that can be used.

The opacity was decreased to 55.1%. This was done so that the two pictures could be shown as well as the video.

Night scene: dip to black The dip to black transition was used on the night scene because it was a dark scene meaning that the dipping to black went well in running the night scene smoothly.

The scenes that used cross dissolve were the park scene, restaurant scene, start and ending scene. We then found dissolve under the video transitions option. We used all of the transitions under the dissolve option to get a variation of transitions. Also, some of the videos looked best with different transitions to others.

We added a transition on our opening and ending clip so that it could gradually fade in. We used a cross dissolve transition on the beginning clip. This was done by clicking on cross dissolve on the image above and dragging it on the clip on the timeline.

Performance: additive dissolves + dip to white was used on the performance scene because the scenes are bright meaning that the transition goes well with the video.

This print screen shows how the additive dissolve looks like on two clips. As you can see the transitions matches the white background as the transition makes it bright. It also gradually brings up the next video up.

Night scene was brightened

We received feedback saying that the night scene was too dark and the actors could not be seen properly. So we decided to brighten up all of the clips to the night scene. The same process was used for all of them.

The first thing we had to do was find the brightness and contrast option in the video effects. When found we then dragged it on to the video on the timeline. We then went in the effects panel and then increase the brightness and contrast until the video looked brighter

This was the result after the video was brightened.

Editing the curves –phone scene

We changed the curves, the brightness & contrast and the sharpness of the phone conversation scene (beginning) because out audience said that these clips looked too dark. All of the curves were slightly moved up to change the colour of the video, as the colour did not look right. The brightness and contrast was also increased to brighten up the videos as well as changing the colour. The videos were also sharpened; this was because the videos did not look like a good quality. But, by doing this is allowed the clips to look better in quality.

Lip sync was speeded up

We realised that one of the lip-syncing clips was too slow and was therefore not matching the song. So we increased the speed of the video so that the lip sync could be on time.