I had used FCP (stands for Final Cut Pro) (I chose those letters because they're the initials of Final Cut Pro), before for editing my thriller film last year at AS and also for my AS film studies film so I was familiar with the software. What I was not familiar with was editing for music videos as it requires a whole different approach to editing. While I had learnt the basics of base track editing last summer for our remakes of popular music videos (see mine here), I only knew a little bit and it took a while for us to get going and for our music video to begin taking shape.
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| Our initial assembling of the base tracks and beginning to place markers where the beat in the song was. |
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| A colour corrector filter. |
One of the main new things I learnt about editing was adding filters to footage. I wish I had known about his last year as it can really make a difference to the look and feel of the film and we put it to good use in this music video. We used loads. We used various colour correctors to make our footage black and white and the right shades we wanted. We also used filters to fix our footage, for example one of our shots of the diamond heist had a visible sheet in the background that said 'nursery key workers' on it and didn't feel very diamond heist-ish. So to fix this we duplicated the shot, and place one above the other. We then applied the Gaussian blur filter to the bottom clip and applied an 8 point garbage matte to the top clip which enabled us to select only the sheet to be blurred and left the rest of the shot untouched. We also used different composite modes like 'overlay' for one of our key effects of having the diamond cards play over the heist and band footage.
To summarise Final Cut Pro has been very useful and I've learnt a lot more about it from editing the music video.
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