Editing Our Music Video

Editing our music video has been the hardest thing about the entire process, apart from perhaps these blogs, but certainly far more painful both physically and psychologically. The first thing I had to do was sort all of the shots into the log and rush bins in Final Cut Pro; all of them and all of them that could be potentially used respectively. This involved watching every single clip and deciding if any part of it could be used, which is always a debatable matter anyway. After a while the slow, droning, moaning song really sinks into your skull and makes you want to kill yourself, but that was only the beginning of my strife. Aligning the time codes so that the lip-syncing matched was another arduous task, worsened by the fact that even though the time codes were in line, human error broke through again, as the lip syncing was still out of time and regularly not even present. I have to admit that the process took much longer than it ought to have, but I feel that it is adequately justified. Continuity was also a complete nightmare. To the point where the video is almost unsalvageable, to me anyway, perhaps someone who knows what they are doing might be able to fix it, my with my limited knowledge of computers, there was little I could do. It meant staying in the editing room for free lessons, lunch breaks and evenings till ten, but achieving very little with the hand we unwittingly dealt ourselves when we filmed the video (which ran overtime as well! We had to shoot over two days). Thanks to the efforts of myself and Anna and the patience of the edit room staff, we now have something that resembles a video sort of. If you were wondering what the narrative is, don't lose any sleep over it, we don't know either. I think there are some shot transitions that we have to do and some tweaking in After Effects, but apart from that, I think it's basically finished. Thank God.