Adding Finishing Touches to the Video


This video is getting closer to what we want in the finished product, but the beginning and end still need some sculpting.

As you roll through the end of your raw materialthe final moments of video Christopher shotyou'll see a few more cutaways and finally a wider shot, an establishing shot, of the group painting.

The video doesn't need the cutaway shots (although you could experiment by dropping short bits into the scene), but it does need the wider shot. There is precious little material shot from a distance to give the audience any sense of where we are or the overall relationship between the girls sitting and painting.

1.

Cut 5 seconds from the wide shot and add it to the sequence as the very first shotahead of the initial work you did in this lesson.

That really helps set up the coming scene. While there are other places it could go (and it can be a little clichéd to open and end with these wide shots), you can't go wrong structurally using the wide shot as a pair of bookends.

2.

Add another segment of the wide shot to the end of the sequence.

3.

Add a 1-second fade-in to the opening shot and a 1-second fade-out to the final shot.

Tip

Special effects are fun when you're playing around or when you want to impress friends with the power of your software, but in real videos they are not only unnecessary in most cases, but actually distracting. Skip special effects in your videos and use transition effects sparingly.

The sequence is done, unless after you watch it a few times you see places you could trim in or out by a few frames.

4.

Use the Trim tool at the transition points to tweak edits.

In particular, watch out for blips in sound where you may have cut right in the middle of a word or sound.

5.

Add (or delete) frames to soften any jarring edges.



    Apple Training Series(c) iLife 05
    Apple Training Series: iLife 05
    ISBN: 032133020X
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 141
    Authors: Michael Rubin

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