My Understanding of Editing Technqiues

Whilst creating the Imagine Dragons Believer music video I took screenshots of the process.

The following image is a screenshot of me creating the Mutli-Camera Source Sequence.

To create a Multi-Camera Source Sequence, you have to select every single file which contains both music and audio from the bin that you have created earlier which contains all of the footage including the master of the song included.

This is how the icon for both the video and audio looks like.

After you selected all of the files which look like the files on the right, you right click the selected files and select "Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence".

Once the menu opens you then get a lot of settings to play around with, the most common which is shown on the screen shot to the left.

After pressing okay there will be a sequence created on the bottom of the bin, to make things easier i placed the sequence into a bin which i named 'Sequence'

To then place the sequence on the timeline you select and right click the sequence which you just created and then select 'Use in Timeline'.

To use the multi cam sequence you need to select the Multi Camera setting which is highlighted in blue on the image to the left.

If that icon can not be seen on the tool bar above the timeline you need to press the '+' icon and find it in the extended menu, after finding it you need to drag it onto the original tool bar.

After selecting the Multi Camera icon, the screen will change into what is seen on the image to the left.

All of the videos that were previously selected have now merged with the Master Audio File which contains the song, this allows us to create a basic music video by literally playing the music and then pressing the different videos. You can see what video you selected by the yellow outline on the multi camera source sequence, you can either press the videos with your mouse or use the number key pad on the right had side of the keyboard. This creates a simple shot sequence which can be changed and adapted later on in the process. For example if one of the shots is slightly out of beat you can use the ripple edit tool to adjust the mistake.

In the screenshot to the left because of a slight problem that we had with aligning the audio with the video I decided to place in video footage without any audio in it so that it will fit well with the music video.
To do this i found videos which consisted out of only video, i then placed an in and out point by using the I and O keys. afterwards i dragged the video onto the timeline and created what is above.

Here i used the Opacity meter to have two different videos with different opacities so that the two would merge into one.

To do this i two different videos with the same length and i placed them above each other on different timelines. After that i used the line which can be seen in the middle of the actual video as shown in the screenshot here. The line in the middle can be adjusted either up or down, also it can be adjusted with a pen tool to have a fade effect. where as here i only wanted to fade the two together.

In this screenshot you can see how to adjust col`our into either one or all shots in the sequence.

To do this you need to select a video in the timeline, afterwards you go to the top bar and press Colour. This will then show up and you will be able to adjust the colour of the video as shown in the screenshot to the left.

In the screenshot below you can see how time can be adjusted in a motion capture. To use this you need to right click on the timeline where the video is presented, and then choose the option "Clip Speed / Duration". After that the window which is shown below will open and you will be able to decide how quick or slow the video must be. 50 % is half of the speed and 150 % will be twice as fast where as -100 % would make the video go in reverse.

In this screen shot i am showing how to find the ripple edit tool to edit the video, you simply press the blue highlighted tool on the left of the screenshot and then use it on the timeline. afterwards there two screens that show on the main screen where you can adjust the selected video to be cut in a certain place.

In this screenshot i show how the pen tool can be used to cut the opacity in a certain shot, As you can see there is a line going through the videos in the timeline, they can be adjusted by using the pen tool and dragging the line down.

In this screenshot I use the Marker to make an edit to the beat of the song. To do this I simply pressed 'M' when i wanted the shot to change. after doing this you need to count how many markers you have created and then select the amount of videos which will fit with the markers. After selecting the videos you right click on them and select "Use on unmarked markers" then they should just appear on the timeline.