Editing: Day Six

During this editing session we decided to focus on music and sound. This was a point we needed to address from the feedback we had gotten from the class so we decided to do now to give our film more suspense.

As I now got copyright clearance from The Secession, I was able to freely use their content in my videos as long as I provided credit in the video description. Also I used copyright free music we downloaded from YouTube using a converter into Final Cut Pro. This allowed us to use the music in the editing software.

During the editing of the music, we found out that sometimes the music would not match the scene as it would just go into the clip with high volume out of nowhere, so we needed to find a way to fade in the music so that it would slowly go into the scene.

There was a technique we learned with the help of tutorials to achieve this effect. To do this, we used the 'Pen Tool' which could be selected from the Final Cut Pro toolbar. We would then use this pen tool on the red line that goes across every clip and create these dots which allowed us to adjust the decibels of the sound (the lower the decibels the lower the sound). The process of me doing this is shown below.

We also saw that this could be applied to our actual camera footage so we did end up lowering some background sound from our actual footage such as when we said 'action' at the beginning of a scene and haven't cut it out properly and ambient sound that was too loud.