Editing Practise

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

A selection of six different tracks.
Cut up sections from the video to DJ Formats - We Know Something You Don't Know. Original version is below.

The was to create a dynamic video using this footage and specifically editing to the beat. The advantage of using the raw footage from the DJ Format video is that the video has performers wearing animal costumes so 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: