Editting Software

The editing software which I chose was Final Cut Pro X. The reason I chose to use this editing software was because I had it available to me on my Macbook Pro and therefore, I could just edit on the go and be able to share it a lot quicker and easier. In my opinion, I believe that Final Cut Pro X is a very good piece of software to use when creating a music video because It has all of the different features which make it unique.It comes with a range of video transitions and a range of video and audio filters such as keying tools. Clips can be edited together in timelines called sequences. Sequences can be nested inside other sequences so that a filter or transition can be applied to the grouped clips. I found that, by allowing me to have access to many different layers I was able to edit more efficiently.

Within the music video, we used some colour filters which created a darker atmosphere to suit the genre and I also changed the exposure on a few shots due to it being rather too low or too high. I find that using this software is a lot easier to edit on than Adobe Premier Pro due to having past experience using this software to edit other pieces of work together.

In our song, we have 2 performers, in between both of them we use a simple transition as we had to separate them whilst they were performing, we also used transitions at the start of the music video when we were showing our different locations we used. I found that sticking to a theme made the editing easier due to knowing what style I had to follow. For example, at the very start, I stuck to graffiti everywhere in black and white which really fitted the genre.

At the very start of the music video I used slow motion in order for the shots to go with the beats and I also wanted to show the different contrasts between the fast rapping by our actors.