Editing A Music Video

Not only is filming a main component to making a music video, but the editing of the video is possibly the main part. Without the edit you will just have one long strand of video which is no coherent and in a chronological order. What you want too do is review all the takes and choose your favourite take for every shot. Maybe in practice, you may prefer different sections from different takes, for example, you may decide that your favourite beginning of a crane move is in take 2, whereas your favourite ending of the crane move is from take 6. Which would be fine providing of course that there is a cutaway between the two slips. If I wished the crane move to be uninterrupted, which is quite unlikely in a music video, you will have to choose your favourite take and leave it uncut. This is good information for me to know if I did wish to change my video about.

A main trick that is always good to know and helps edit a music video efficiently is to place all the selected clips on the timeline, one above the other on stacked video tracks. They must all be in their correct positions relative to the song, e.g they must all be synced - expect the cutaways which can be placed wherever you want them too be.