Editing so far

Over the past couple of week both myself and Roisin have been busy editing away at our music video. So far we have managed to do a lot of the video but have still got the last section to finish putting together. We have also got a small piece at the beginning which we had not yet filmed which needs to be done in the next week, so we can finishing the first draft.

One of the problems which we have found during the editing process is that some of our clips, mainly the ones which we filmed in location 2. Have all been letterboxed creating a smaller viewing area. This is a problem which we have been looking into resolving as we did not want our video to have something which distracts the audience. Which this might do.

We have both tried a number of different techniques which we both thought might help, but they both seem to be having the same affect when it comes to editing them in the clips. One of these was to edit the scale of the clip, so we would be zooming in on certain parts of the action. This then got rid of the litter boxing but we found that the image was not a clear as originally and also our artist looked as if he had just been stretched. Which is not good.

Because of this we have chosen to look at another way of doing this. This is by exporting each individual clip out as a QuickTime format in the format 4:3 which is what we need. And then having in important them all back in again to re-edit what we have done.

We tried this with a couple of clips and they seemed to be working. But as we tried it with other clips which had more detail in, we started to see how they clips quality was not as good and also in a couple we had the same problem as before, and having are artist being stretched.

In the end we have both decided that it will most probable be best to keep it as having this letter boxed affect added on. And if we feel that some of the other clips which are not focused on the artist in location 1 may have to have this effect added on. We do not think that this is a huge problem. The only thing which we are worried about is how the change is quite big and we do not want this to distract our audience and be talking about that instead of the content within.