subject: Vital Timeline For Music Video [print this page] There are some similar things when making a music video and a short movie video. Sure, there are some different places, too. You can use a script to shoot some angles and edit these shots during post-production period. When you have shot a plenty of angles, you should review all the takes and choose suitable takes to make the music video. As there are different takes, you may prefer to one section to another, but you have to decide the section depends on the basic tone of the video.
As you are the director of the music video, you can use the shoots in take 3 as the beginning and shoots in take 5 as the ending. You can decide how to use these shoots as you desire if only these shoots have a cutaway among them. Of course, you can use some unique ways to deal with these sections in different takes. Choose your preferred take and leave it uncut, and you can do whatever you like when you edit the video. Finally, your video will has different and unique features.
When you edit the music video, you should take use of the waveform picture, so you can synchronize sound and picture in a better way. Besides synchronization of sound and picture, you have to synchronize the video clips with the track too. Disable the scratch sound tracks temporarily, but you should never delete them from timeline, for they will play an important role during the editing program. Finally, you can hear the master track and the picture after you have scrubbed the timeline.
Timeline is a vital factor to edit a good music video. I always like to place my favored clips on the timeline on video tracks one above another. All these clips have to be in right positions, which are synchronized with the song. If there are cutaways, you can place them in positions you like. Actually, you can edit the music video as you desire.
Have you ever heard of razor tool? You have to use it in the following process. Razor tool is very useful when you cut from one shot to another. What is more, you can use this too to delete all clips above the one you like. Therefore, you dont need to drag and drop clips with this razor tool. Now you can work efficiently to switch view from one shot to another, and you can edit a good music video in a short period of time without decreasing video quality.
