1) The document summarizes the process of editing a music video using Final Cut Express software. Key steps included organizing footage into folders, importing clips into Final Cut Express, dragging clips onto the timeline, rendering clips, adding effects like tint and soft edge, and adding credits. 2) Multiple layers were used to separate elements like performance clips, flashback scenes, and text. Track visibility was disabled to focus on specific clips during editing. 3) Effects like color correction and split screen were implemented to improve video quality and sync clips. Motion parameters and cropping were used to create the split screen effect. 4) Credits were added by inserting text, adjusting formatting, and fading in/out. Overall the

1. MUSIC VIDEO
CONSTRUCTION...

2. I edited my music video on the Apple Macbook Laptop. To organise my footage I used folders, I
categorised the footage based on their utility and usefulness, as well as the scene they would be used
for. we coloured the folders for the useful clips blue and the clips that would be of no use red. To
actually construct the video we used Final cut express, organising the clips beforehand meant it was
easier to find them on Final cut express where they would be stored in the browser.

3. Viewer – used to preview and prepare source clips for editing as well as adjust filter and motion para
Canvas – allows us to view our edited sequence , as well as perform a variety o
a needed for the music video and it contained tabs for open projects and effects
ays sequences, and contains a tab for each sequence
Audio meters – these floating meters lets us mon

4. TOOLS
Selection
tool
Edit selection tool
Select track forward tool
Roll tool
Slip tool
Blade tool
Zoom in and out tool
Crop tool
Pen tool

5. The first step involved getting the footage for the music video on to Final cut express, I
first put these clips on to the Apple Macbook as MP4 files. To put my footage on to final
cut express I clicked on file, import and then either file or folder. As I have mentioned
before I organised our clips on the basis of utility and the scenes they would be part of,
this made it easier to find the scene I needed to edit on Film Cut express. Having done
this the footage was now stored in the browser bar, this meant I could from here drag the
clips I needed onto the time line creating our sequence.

6. In order to create the music video I dragged the RENDER STATUS BAR
clip from the browser on to layers in the time line.
Once I had dragged the clip I wished to used on
to the browser I had to render it in order to
preview the footage. The Render status bar is the
bar located at the top of the Time line and allowed
me to see which parts of the video needed
rendering and which clips had already been
rendered. When clips needed to be rendered the
render status bar would appear red above the clip
that needed rendering however the render status
bar would appear grey in order to inform us that
the clip had been rendered. I had placed the
music file on a separate layer, as well as the clips
audio files also have to be edited, we therefore
rendered the song. The render process required
time and patience therefore it was important that I
had organised the clips before hand in order to be
efficient with my time. Once everything had been
rendered and I was able to review the footage. To
do this I dragged the play head to the beginning
of the time line and pressed play, this now meant
that the video and audio would be played in the
canvas in the upper right hand corner. For some
of the clips I only needed part of the footage, for
example for the lip syncing scenes we recorded a
bit extra and asked the actress to sing a bit more
of the verse in order to reduce flaws . This extra
footage we did not need and as a result used the
razor blade tool to remove the unwanted part of
the clip.

7. The video clips were placed in layers V1- V4
of the Timeline, and the two audio clips, one
which included the actual song and the other
which had the audio from the footage were
placed on layers A1 and A2. Unlike many of
my peers who had everything on one layer I
decided to have multiple layers,. I had layer 1
with the performance clips where the female
artist was singing continuously and then on
layer 2 I added the flashback scenes. Later I
placed the scenes within the house on layer 3
and finally the text which is need at the
beginning and the end of the music video was
placed on the 4th layer. Doing this made the
editing process a lot easier, this is because
when adding another clip I did not need to
worry about the clips that had already been
placed being moved. Furthermore as we
firstly placed the lip syncing scenes, I was
able to add the other scenes without the lip
syncing being distorted. Also adding effects
became easier as we had enough room on
the separate layers to make the effects last
for the correct amount of time without cutting
off parts of the next clip. Another tool which
enabled us to prevent the lip syncing scenes
from being distorted is the lock tool. The lock
tool allowed me to lock layers, for example
the audio clip in this case the song “No one”
by Alicia keys, because the layer was locked
it could not be moved not even by accident. LAYERS

8. As our video utilised multiple layers it was difficult to see when editing whether
the clip we had just edited had any errors. In order to overcome this issue we
disabled A layer /track so it was not visible or audible when we played the
whole video, this meant we were able to edit on disabled tracks easily and
effectively, furthermore once we had finished editing the clip and wanted to
review it we were able to disable all the other layers to review the edited clip
To disable tracks to
hide content during
playback I Clicked on
the Track Visibility
control to disable a
track.

9. Within our video we have
incorporated a number of
techniques in order to cause our
video to look more effective, for
example our video utilises many
flashbacks and therefore it was
important to distinguish the past
from the present, to do this we
used an effect within Final cut
express called Tint which enabled
us to make the flashback scenes
appear black and white allowing
people to clearly differentiate the
past from the present. We
incorporated this effect from an
Alicia Keys video entitled
“Unthinkable”, if we did not use this
effect it could have potentially
jeopardised the success of our
video as it would have made the
narrative within our video unclear,
another effect we used was the
“soft edge tool” again this was used
to show that the clip represented
the past, it softened the edges and
helped to show that the clips were
past memories.

10. In some scenes the lighting was poor for example a scene we recorded with rain which had
poor lighting as it had been recorded during the night, in order to improve the lighting In this
scene and within other scenes where the lighting needed improving we used the colour
collector filter. This tool gave me control over the colour balance of individual clips. In order to
use the colour correction tool I clicked on effects>video filter>colour correction>colour
corrector. This allowed me to adjust the clips colour until I felt I had got it to look most
effective.

11. Within our video we used a split
screen effect. To use this effect I
first layered the three different
clips I wanted to for the split
screen exactly on top of each
other, I then rendered these
clips. . After watching each
individual clip in the viewer I Layered the clips
was able to identify the key on top of each
points of the clip which we other
needed in order to make the clip
in sync and fit together . I then
opened the individual clips into
the viewer, then clicked on the
motion tab. These parameters in Motion
the motion tab where divided Parameters
into seven attribute sets. Each
attribute had its own visual and
numeric parameter controls.
Here I used the Crop
parameters to crop a clip from Crop
the specified side. You can crop Parameters
the top, left, right, and bottom of
a clip independently however for
example on the clip of the on the
left I cropped only the right hand
side and on the females clip I
cropped only the left hand side .
Values in the number fields
represent pixels, therefore as
you crop a clip you are removing
the pixels.

12. Finally I had to create the credits for the music video in order to cause it to look more
professional, look I did this by clicking on a little “A” on a film-strip which was placed
on the viewer and then clicked on text . This then opened the control parameter
where I could add the text and change the size , style and colour of the text. Once I
was happy with the appearance of the credit I dragged the text from the viewer on
top the time line above the beginning and end of the video and added the fade in
effect and then rendered the text , the music video was now complete.