Final Editing Process

Yesterday, I spent the majority of my day doing the final process of edting for my main task. The main thing I had to do was add the opening titles to the video so that it fitted the conventions of an opening sequence. However, this is not all I did as there were a few things that needed to be corrected. As I was doing this editing at home, I had some new programs available to me. These were Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.

Adobe Premiere Pro
After the initial edit, we figured that our production was at a high enough standard. However when I watched it home, I realised that some of the diegetic sound was either poor quality or was not syncronised with the action on screen. Therefore I decided to edit the sound, mainly the footsteps as they were way too loud and not in sync. I also added some extra diegetic sound such as creaking and birds in the background to try and make it more realistic. There were also some visual tweaks that needed to be made, such as slightly lengthening and shortening clips, and in some places the video had glitched and needed to be replaced. As well as this I added some of the titles that would appear in the finished piece which was made very simple by Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro as a video editing software is fantastic! The ease of use was great and the video editing options were vast.

Adobe After Effects
To do some of the titles for the final piece, we wanted to make some of them more dynamic and we thought the best way to do this was implementing the text into the enviroment. After research, I found the best program to use for this is Adobe After Effects. There were a variey of features available to me, however many of these effects were not possible as some features. An example is the feature known as rotoscoping. This feature puts an object from the video in a seperate layer so that you can insert things behind it while the video is in motion. Initially, this was a plan but as the rotoscoping is usually done with a still object and/or with a selection of colours in the picture. Due to the camera moving a lot and there being little difference in colour it could not pick up myself as a layer within the video and therefore did not work. However, there were some features that did work. The one I used was camera tracking. This feature is used to track all motion within a selcted clip and then find 'track points' which you can then link with text, for example. Therefore as the track point stays in place so does the text and moves along with the camera movement. I used this twice, once where it says 'Cinematography, Thomas Ewart.' and I attatched this to the ground and secondly when it says 'Starring, Abel Clarke' and this was made to look like it was written on the wall. This is fairly simple to do and is very effective. Overall, Adobe After Effects is a really good program when implementing video effects into a video. However, as I was a beginner to the program, I felt I was thrown very much in the deep end and it took me a good while to understand what I was doing.












After all this was done, the final piece is now complete. I will be putting it on my blog soon.