How I Edited My Music Video

How I Edited My Music Video

I edited my music video in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. In class we were shown a few techniques with this software which I brought to my music video. I also had some experience with Premiere Pro from when I previously did my group work in making a short film (you can see earlier in my blog) Although most of my editing techniques came from teaching myself as I edited and watching youtube tutorials to help me with parts I wanted to feature in my music video.

Firstly I uploaded all my clips so I could see them all when I was editing.

I would drop any clips I wanted to use into my timeline, on top of the sound track I added (The green strip at the bottom) In order to make sure all my audio from my filmed clips silent and the only audio playing was the track I choose, I had to mute all my other timeline clips by pressing the 'M' on the left had side of the timeline.

I would then lay out my clip I was working on and play it throughout to find any points I wanted to crop. With this video of the sunset I wanted to crop it so it was alined with the audio. As the audio was playing sea splashes I wanted my clip to play for however long until the splashes stopped. To crop my clips I would either use my mouse to drag the clip smaller in the timeline or for a more precise cut I would use the razor tool on the left hand-side of the timeline under the pointer.








I used the 'Colour' bar in this editing software in the majority of my clips, this added the colours I wanted in my music video and gave every clip a more 'Summer Vibe' in which I wanted to achieve. Due to filming this music video in winter but still wanting to make it look realistic it meant I had to use vibrant colours to make it look like a summer video. To do this I would firstly go to the 'creative bar' In which meant I could target the vibrance and saturation of the original clip, Once I used these on my original it made changing the basic correction easier as I could pick up the real colours and swap them for different ones. I loved how this helped portray my videos into the vibe I wanted.

The majority of my clips I also wanted to be slowed down to give a cinematic effect and this is used in many electronic music videos. To do this I would right click on the clip and I would change the speed. 100 is normal speed and anything below is slow motion and above is to speed the video up.

Here I was carrying on adding more clips. and editing the colours.

For this clip I wanted to follow a lyric of time and rain. For this clip I thought if I put the clock into the video alone it would look out of place. So I wanted to somehow incorporate the clock but to make it fit into my music video. You will be able to see I tried a few ideas until I got the one I liked.

I then went into photoshop and created my Title which was how I did my title for my poster and dijipak

Applying transitions

I ended up liking this use of the clock most of all. I did this by placing my video of the clock over my video of the people walking in the timeline. This meant the clock would overwrite the clip of the people walking. In oder to have the clock and the people in the shot I had to change the opacity of the clock video. I did this by clicking on the clip and going into editing and under opacity I changed the numbers until It was how I liked it. I then used some more settings from the opacity menu which included 'soft light' this is what made my clock fade more naturally into the other clip. This clip made me think of the sun over the horizon which matched so perfectly with this clip. To make this clip look cut together seamlessly I wanted to give it a slightly faded transition. To do this I used my mouse to right click onto the very end of the clip and clicked 'add auto transition' this gave me a very faded ending to the video.

I also used the position tool under editing to move my clip around until I liked the way it looked.

Some of my clips involve cutting so its a cut up fast forward. To do these I used the Razor tool and cut up my clip and removed parts to speed up. I really liked this effect as it made it more cinematic.

Video Of Me Editing.