Final editing blog

Today we did the final editing for our commercial. The first thing we did was import all of the clips we recorded onto the computer. This took a very long amount of time, which made us have a very short amount of time to work on it, especially since it was a half day. After importing, we had to select which clips we wanted to use. I was very picky about this because i was in the video and i didn’t want it to look bad. There were a lot of clips we had to choose from, thankfully. We were very relieved that we took a lot of shots, it made it much easier to put our video together. A lot of clips had minor issues in them either with the visual or the audio, this made us think more about using voiceovers. We did have enough takes that were fine to use, therefore we did not have to improvise. We then took our selected clips and edited them together. We tried to do the best we could with the slow computers that didn’t work very well.

We began to edit them by dragging one clip onto the other. We needed to make the end of the first clip touch the beginning of the second clip, so it blended together as one smooth video. We ended up needing to remove a lot of the footage because the clips were way too long. We did this by clipping scene by scene to the perfect length. Once we had the clips shortened and pasted together we had to begin working with the audio. Most of what we had recorded originally was what we were going to use. However, a few of the clips needed to be re recorded for the audio. We had to import the new audio we recorded today. It was the same process as importing the visual clips. Then we began messing with the audio, dun dun dunnn..

Under the visual clip line there is a little audio clip line. We took the audio clip and trimmed it down to match the visual, since we removed some footage. Then, we inserted the audio into the audio line for the scene. Another issued we had to deal with was the narration/voiceover. We recorded voiceover for the slogan of the commercial. Doing this was rather easy, as all we needed to do was play the audio over a picture of the Gatorade bottle itself. Next we had to insert a picture of the Gatorade logo at the end. After we finished all the editing we watched the almost-final product. We noticed the speed of the voiceover didn't match the clip it was on, which really sucked! We ended up figurines out how to speed up the audio without speeding up the visual. The sad thing is whenever you have to speed up the audio it doesn’t sound as authentic, but hopefully we can make it work.