Step 4 - Editing
Hello and welcome to welcome to my videography blog: Video Pro with Andrew Tregoning.
In these series of posts I'm outlining how to make a music video if you're a total noob and have practically no budget.
In these series of posts I'm outlining how to make a music video if you're a total noob and have practically no budget.
We’re almost done now guys, if you’ve made it this far you must be Serious!
Editing your music video:
So you’ll need something like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, but something like iMovie is just as useful for these small projects. Once you figure out the basics on how to cut footage together using one of these programs or apps lay out all your good performance takes on your timeline, sync them up to your track, then simply cut between them to the beat (lightly tap your space bar to the beat then Bang! - press it where you want the cut).
So you’ll need something like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, but something like iMovie is just as useful for these small projects. Once you figure out the basics on how to cut footage together using one of these programs or apps lay out all your good performance takes on your timeline, sync them up to your track, then simply cut between them to the beat (lightly tap your space bar to the beat then Bang! - press it where you want the cut).
Protip: a sweet way of getting slow motion (a staple in any music video) is to shoot at 50fps for the specific shots you want to be in slow motion, then half the speed or duration to 50% on a 25fps timeline.
Once you’ve done all that you should now have a performance video cut together. Now for the story shots, literally just pick out the best shots and sprinkle them over the performance takes, in an order that makes sense.
I could go into much greater detail about editing, colouring, stabalisation etc but i’ll leave that for another day.
I could go into much greater detail about editing, colouring, stabalisation etc but i’ll leave that for another day.
Thanks so much for reading, I hope I helped. Check back every Monday for a new videography blog.