Editing Practice

firstly to practise editing to the beat, we were given a Final Cut document with the following things:

 six different tracks.
Cut up footage from the video  by DJ Formats - We Know Something You Don't Know. this is the Original version is below.

this was to have our first go at using this footage and editing it to a specific to the beat. The advantage of using this footage  is that because in the video the performers are wearing animal costumes there are no issues with lip-synching.

From the process we learned the following:

1) By arranging the video sequences on top of each other on the timeline you easily cut through the footage to cut between the various performances.

2) Clicking on the Show Audio Wave Forms to bring up an illustration of beats and structure of the track. This allowed us to edit accurately to the beat and change the pace of the editing to suit the tempo of the track.

3) To create an authentic and interesting edit, there has to be regular transitions between a variety of performance types.

Here is an example of our work: