Music Video Editing Blog

  With all the footage filmed, it was time to edit. The biggest problem I faced going into editing was my lack of certain shots. I didn't shoot a lot of the scenes on my storyboard because I forgot. I needed to figure out how to work around that. Another problem was the time restraint I had. My peers had a whole week to edit, but because I am leaving school early, I only had three days. However, because I don't have access to Pinnacle Studios outside of school, I really only had two days to completely edit my music video. 

   I had many technical difficulties while editing. Pinnacle Studios was slow and often crashed. Sometimes, it wouldn't even open. Because of how frequently I had to switch computers, I decided to keep all my footage and work on a flashdrive instead of a desktop. I lost some time due to this; every time I switched computers, I had to re-import the footage into Pinnacle Studios from my USB. However, I think this was ultimately more efficient than using just one computer. 

  Pinnacle Studios lagged a lot, which made it hard to preview my video. This made the editing process especially difficult because of how I had to time the clips to the music at exact points. After a while, though, the lag stopped and I was able to properly preview the music video. Regarding the missing shots, I ended up replacing them with shots I did film while trying to keep the story as intact as possible. I think in some scenes this worked, but in others, the footage is unrelated. The end of the video is chaotic and disjointed, which I think ended up working for my music video. The song itself is supposedly to be a delve into insanity and my music video reflects that. In all, I am satisfied with my music video. I think I could have done better, but I am pleasantly surprised with what I did in the time frame I had.