Editing

Editing the clip was where the music video really started to take shape, and for this task we used iMovie on an iBook G4 borrowed from schools Media Studies department. Whilst this software was good and allowed us to add all the effects we wanted to, it did cause some problems, chiefly in synching the performance to the music. We started editing the video in between days 1 and 2 of filming, so we started by adding the performance parts of the video to the timeline. We put them in place and got all the clips in synch with the music. However after we had filmed the conceptual, non-performance parts of the video and tried to edit them into place, each clip we put in pushed all the other clips out of synch. This meant that everything we'd edited previously was ineffective and was now completely out of synch. This created more problems in making it harder to discern how much of a clip we'd need to cut off for it to fit in place, however we got around it by noting down the times that clips would have to start and finish at for everything to be in synch, which allowed us to calculate how long the other clips we were putting in would have to be. This solved the problem of clips falling out of synch, however it was difficult to get everything into the right place still.

Another problem we encountered was exporting the finished video in a file that retained a high quality picture, but which wouldn't be too large a file to fit on to a memory stick. We needed to move the video over to another computer to upload it to the internet, as the iBook we were using didn't have an internet connection. We tried exporting as all the file types suggested by iMovie, however on all of them apart from the file type which was too large for our memory stick, the quality was much too low. As we didn't want to lose picture quality, we got around this by exporting the video as a large file and burning this file to a CD-R. We then copied this file onto another computer, and were then able to upload it as a large file with full quality retained.