Wednesday 17 March 2010

Problems With Video

There were quite a few problems that we encountered during the editing stage.;
Firstly we did things separately, we had created the three main files (the Logo video, the production video and the soundtrack) all in different formats.
We thought it would be simple enough just to open them all on final cut and then synch them together because we were happy with all three but after taking a lot of our time syncing the gunshot sounds into the video (Which we did in Garageband), with the music underneath and video on top, We exported the finished product from Garageband to a .mov file, then imported that into final cut. But when we watched the video we found that the sound had been distorted and shortened and thus made completely unusable.
After spending hours trying to fix this by ourselves (this took two full lessons). We sought expert help (We got our teacher and the technician to take a look), it was suggested that a couple of things could be done for example: cutting up the sound and shifting it to the correct positions on the video or starting again. Not content with the latter option we shifted the sound and saved. But when we checked the video in quicktime the sound was still distorted and out of place again.
in our despair we asked our teacher (Steve) if there was any other option. Steve (ever willing to help) then told us that he could put the videos together without entering final cut, thus not distorting sound. He did that and now we have a finished video ready to be uploaded to Vimeo.

Written By:
George Marino,
Edited, Corrected and Rewritten by:
Henry Jones

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