Editing Diary

Wednesday 5th January
I uploaded all of the video we'd captured over the holidays which took about fifteen minutes. Once it had uploaded to Pinnacle Studio's, I watched all the clips we had deciding which order to put them in. I started with the introduction of the song, which I used a special tool on Pinnacle to slow down, as we wanted the effect of money falling down slowly past the camera. I put the clips in the correct order to go with the lyrics, however I had a problem with the song. When I tried putting my MP4 track of "The Fear" onto Pinnacle Studio's, it wasn't recognising the file. I soon realised it's because the music track needs to be MP3 for it to work on Pinnacle. For the rest of the editing session, I had to play the song through my iPod to check I was matching the clips up on time with the music. It was quite hard but it was the only way I could carry on editing, I spent 2 hours in the editing suite and would hopefully sort out the music for the next day.

Thursday 6th January
I tried to upload the music track again as a MP3 file, but for an unknown reason it wasn't dragging onto the Pinnacle software again. I had to carry on with the editing regardless of the music situation as there was still more to be done. I changed a lot of the music video today, I cut down a lot more clips so that there's more fast and quick cuts and I added more of a range of different shot angles. The hardest thing today was having to play the music seperately from the video again yet still trying to match up the video to the lyrics and beat of the song. We're all much happier with how the video looks after today's session.


By Leila Robertson