Skills development:New editing skills

I have learnt a few new editing skills during the editing process of my music video even though it is very similar to the way in which we made our thriller filming. I must admit i wasn't very confident when it came to editing together the lip sync and often struggled but recently i am finding it alot easier to use, i asked my group members for help and they were brilliant. I also learnt how to use 'markers' by pressing the keys 'Ctrl' & 'M' at the same time to create a red mark on the timeline in which you can line up your lip sync with the lyrics or beat of the song so that it makes our artist look like he is singing the song. 

Rendering: We had problems when it came to rendering particualr clips and we coudlnt use the shortcut method that we learnt previous 'Cmd' & 'R' at the same time. Therefore we had to go to Sequence and then Render all. (I learnt this from our thriller coursework) This rendering process enabled all the clips and the effects to be applied correctly and so when watching the footage it was clear, precise and everything was exactly where you wanted it.

The Video point-3 minute-4 minute 10 seconds shows the rending process

Oh yeah, another student who study's media finished his video so taught me how to add an effect to a couple of our clips that appear at the end of our music video. It's called 'Blink' and it acts as a transparent effect in which two clips are overlapped and a blinking motion is performed this was a create effect to use as it goes with the beat of our song and is rather edgy and disjointed. 

This is a video of ways to apply transitions to many clips. We used a majoirty of these and this illustrates the ways we were able to use the effects.

The video point-1 minute 35 seconds shows exactly how to apply it on the timeline in between clips.

• Fades
• dissolves 
• Blink
• Colorize (Black and white) (Sepia)
• Slow motion
• Making clips appear faster

I have also learnt more about team work and the skill of being able to communicate and deal with circumstances that are not exactly beneficial but do often happen. (People being ill, not able to attend a filming session etc) Luckily i was pared up with people who worked around everyone else's time table and even though our priorities was to finish our music video we also studied other subjects and had to create a schedule's that suited everybody.