Final Cut effect tests

With the footage we used for the 'sharks' task, I had played around with the frames, by using the razor tool and sectioning few frames. Once I had done this I duplicated the frames and made one faster (by 150%), and the other I kept the same speed but had reversed it. I then watched it over and felt it was still too slow, so I sped up the whole section making it 170% faster than the original speed. This gave a more 'jerky' effect than it was before. As there is no set effect in Final Cut, I cannot apply it to footage automatically. Instead I have to manually cut frames, alter the speed and put the frames back to try and achieve the effect in Rihanna's Disturbia video.

I have tried to achieve the effect with another clip, this time, by using the razor tool by se

ctioning the clip, then speeding one part to 250%, then the next part to 150%, then next to 120% and then back to 250% and so on. It gave a more smooth jerky effect than the clip above as I did not have any reversed frames in between the normal clips (only at the end had I reversed all the clips and added it to the end).

You Wanna What Final Cut Task

In this task, we had footage of people lip syncing You Wanna What, and we had to cut and move footage around to make a clip where the original audio track matched the the lip syncing. I found this task more difficult than the sharks task as there is lip syncing involved in it making it more difficult to correctly match the audio. I was able to successfully match another scene with where the music left off in the previous scene. I also enhanced the colour by changing the black, white and contrast levels. By doing this, the colour had become 'film' like, enhancing the viewing pleasure.

Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time recreated

For this task, our class had to recreate Britney Spears' music video Hit Me Baby One More Time. Every shot was filmed to imitate the shots in the original video. As the studio recorded track is different used in the video (no sound effects from the beginning exist on the studio recorded track), I had removed the video and kept the audio from the original video clip to match the footage. I had cut the footage to the exact time of the shots from the original video. So from watching the original in the middle window, I was able to see the duration of the shot, and then matched it to the duration of the footage we had taken. This resulted in the footage cutting shots at the same time as it did in the original, replicating it completely with precise timing.

Problems with occurred included the problems with rendering as Final Cut was not writing the audio. As the video was rendered and written, the audio was left unrendered. The solution was to only render the audio and not select 'Both' or 'Video'.

Music Video Test With Sharks!

This task involved using existing footage of various people in costume dancing. All the clips had no soundtrack in which the characters did not lip sync to a chosen track. There was a choice of 6 tracks in which I had to choose one and edit the footage to match the track. While listening to the playback of the track, I was marking the beat each time it was heard. This would then help me make appropriate cuts in the footage, where the beat is heard. I had chosen various clips and applied effects on Final Cut Express, such as, reversing a duplicate clip which I had cropped (from the original).