Editing The Video On Final Cut Pro

Editing this year was substantially difficult to that of last year. Not only were the tricks we wanted to pull off more extreme but the knowledge we had behind the actual programme grew futher giving us more expectations for an ambitious attempt.


This year we both wanted and had to put layers of images rather than leaving the one clip playing. To do this we put our selected clip to fade out to allow the other to be visible on the track above it. Then, heading to the bottom right of the screen, we pressed a button which had multiple dots being joined by a line. By adjusting the levels on the actual clip the same way you would for the audio file to the track we enabled ourselves to produce this effect however strong we desired.



We also wanted the flash back section, of the protagonist nearly punching his girlfriend, to appear as a flashback and contrast the scene in which he punches the mug who tries to steal his vodka bottle. To do this we entered the effects column and headed to the transitions. By dropping the colour and increasing the contrast as well as applying other image enhancing and reducing effects we got an image that, in contrast to the original, is obviously a flash back however does also stay in the same colour format and have the same look to it as the original.














To do the split screen segments for both the two eyes in one and the dead-couple at the end we had to do something we have not previously done on this programme. We had to click on the motion settings for the video and adjust the scale of the video. We then had to, by pressing the Image & Wireframe option on the View selections, crop the image and move it to its suitable position so the shots looked good and appeared how we initially intended them too.


Also, at times, the shots werent in the appropriate places and the focal points werent where we intended them to be. To tackle this issue we had to wait until the post-production stage and then go on movement again. We had to change where the clip was placed or how much we wanted to inscrease the scale by and confirm the key-frames when he had. We didnt want the effect to be too obvious so we added layers ontop of it and zoomed in gradually.


We also used multiple filters to both connote the slitting of the female leads wrist and to also make the bass playing appear more vintage. To do this we went to the effects selection and either picked the black and white option or colour enhance one. Either way we adjusted it the way we wanted and used the black & white tool to make certain things more darker too. Such as increase the black on the dark patches and reduce the white on the others, this effect can be seen more clearly on the third picture.













The final thing we had to do using final cut pro, besides the basics of putting the clips in-sync with the song and in the right order, was too create the stop frame animation effect. We did this twice in the video and both times we, rather than took photos, we recorder the entire thing and took either half a second or 2 seconds of us standing still or the objects being still and implemented them into the timeline in a way that it appeared the objects (the guitars) were moving and the performers were changing clothes and equipment quickly.