First editing session

Today we began editing our music video. As we were the first group to shoot, we had the advantage of importing our footage from the camera card to the computer hard drive early. For the editing, we will use Adobe Premiere Pro.

We got started immediately, as we knew we had a large number of rushes than needed sifting through and syncing up. We recognised this process will take a long time for us due to the amount of footage and the particular difficulty of cutting to our track. The track has multiple different beats that you can possibly cut to.


We already had the cut digital copy of our track and placed into our project, along with the digital clapper.

The clapper was an extremely useful tool for syncing up our shots. It allowed us an audio and visual guideline for where the shots should sync against the digital track.

I began syncing up all 50 rushes, including the outtakes and bad shots. This is to save a significant amount of time in the editing process, as I can just focus on editing instead of syncing up further into the process. To sync up: I must find on the last number a solid digit that is clear. I must then find the same last digit on the footage. This is where our playback role comes into action on shoot day. Once found the same solid digit, I then pressed 'I' on the keyboard to cut in, and select the video icon underneath to drag video only onto the timeline. I placed it where my tracker is on the timeline. (the blue line)



This took a very long time to do all 50 rushes, particularly as some shots didn't have matching clear digits; however, this is a vital step for lip syncing. Without the accurate lip syncing, the video will not be effective in creating an illusion that the artist is singing live.