Building the Base for Final Editing

      With filming all wrapped up, it was finally time to edit the clips. I decided to be the one to edit because I had the best idea of how the music video should be. On top of that, I knew which clips go where and for how long. I didn't have the clips on my phone since the clips were recorded on a higher-quality one. After I got sent those clips I started the editing process.

     The first thing I noticed when I got the clips is that they were all out of order. This was challenging because there were multiple takes per shot we took. So the first thing that I had to do was order them chronologically by setting. After that, and this was the hardest part, I had to find the agreed-upon take per each shot. I put them in 4 different ordered folders on my phone which were organized by setting.

     The next step was to choose what editing app I wanted to use. I knew I needed something readily available and on apple devices. Most importantly, it needed to have a feature to snip clips so I could fit clips into their respective time constraints. An audio feature would also be essential because I would need to add music over the clips. Imovie fit all of these criteria, so I chose to edit all of the clips together in this app.

     Learning from past projects, Imovie doesn't make it easy to rearrange clips once they are chosen. This is why I ordered the clips in four different folders to avoid this problem. I also found an easier way to insert audio by screen recording the song I needed and then inserting that video as audio-only. This makes it easier to match up the clips with their respective part within the song. With all of that done, I had the base I wanted to make to ensure the final editing would go smoothly.