Footage editing session

The main aim for todays session was to start editing the footage recorded from the day before. This session was rather productive as I would personally say we are about 50% from the final product. Although this process was quite simple  which might sound biased, but from my point of view, it followed through with quite a few steps. First of all our group and every other group had to collect their specific DSLR camera as they all still had the SD card in them, this SD card would then be ejected from the camera and inserted into the SD card port on the side of the mac. The second piece of equipment that we had to collect was a hard drive which similar to the cameras was organised with a number, purposely making it easier for the groups to identify their work. Once the hard drive was plugged into the mac, the next process was to import the footage and a couple relevant pictures from the SD card to the hard drive which took about two to three minutes due to the fact that there were so many files to move over. Whilst waiting for this process to be completed I opened a default app on the mac used for editing videos which is called 'Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac'. Once the files were imported, we then went on to open the files in the video editor which allowed us to obviously edit and save our work in progress. The first step to actually editing the video included finding an original version of the song, then opening that file in Adobe editor, and then syncing the our video with the audio of Drakes 'One Dance'. Although it was relatively easy to play the audio over the clips of the video, it's quite difficult to correctly align the two as the mac was automatically jumping to different periods and wasn't letting us manually adjust when the two started, for example the audio would play a millisecond before the video, and even though it seems minor, it was very visible in the playbacks and was simply destroying the outcome, however after many failed attempts we did succeed in syncing the two at the exact same time. This was the conclusion of todays session, and hopefully tomorrow we can finish adding in a few extra clips and the outro and also remove all of the default hard cuts in between the scenes and replace them with nice transactions to help the video flow.

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