Digital News: Editing

When we had finished filming, our next task was to edit. Due to being near to the deadline for this and other projects me, Illy and Sei-Kai decided to split the role of editing, while Tim worked on our website for our news channel. It was much easier to split the roles as we then had enough time to focus on our Fiction Adaptation unit.

Me and Illy was able to have a kick start with editing, while Sei-Kai went away to film for her fiction adaptation. We came in at weekends and stayed late most nights at the studios. When Sei-Kai got back she took over the editing while me and Illy were able to focus on our fiction adaptation filming.

We have now edited most of our news piece, all we need to is create an intro/outro.

While editing we had a couple of problems.

1. Sound

When it came to recording sound, we mainly used a program call 'Pro Tools' to record our VO's onto.
With one part of our news piece we had to record Charlie reading Mike Whiting's statement, as we needed a male to do this, the sound system we decided to use was the fostex as it was quick and easier to use than 'Pro Tools'.

Once we had finished the recording, we downloaded it onto the computer we noticed that the sound had come out very low. Sei-Kai came up with the idea of copying Charlie's VO and layering it on top of it a couple of times, as we layered it more and more, the sound started to get louder. We ended up layering his sound about seven times to get the sound loud enough. The only problem with doing this is that you can hear white noise in the background, however this isn't a big issue.

2. Framing

On a couple of our shots, we noticed that we had filmed a bit larger than what was needed to be in frame. We was able to go onto Final Cut Pro and use the 'Crop' tool to take some of the space away. The only problem with cropping is that if you crop a lot off the footage it can become quite grainy because it has to zoom in, however as we only cropped a little bit off the edge the quality of the footage wasn't effected.

Even though we had some problems editing, I'm glad we was able to find a solution and sort it out. I'm very pleased that we have nearly finished editing our news piece, however I wish we had started on it earlier, so then this project wouldn't have crashed with our fiction adaptation unit.
Hopefully by tomorrow, we should have a finished news video.