Final Stages Of Editing

Once the video was near completion we decided to add a MTV Rocks logo to make the video seem more genuine. We opted to use this logo as we felt it suits the song, as the song is part of the Alt Rock genre. We also had to choose a design with a transparent background as this is what the channel uses, Matt found an image from Wikipedia for our logo (here). The image was then opened in Final Cut and it was then seen in the browser box, it was then dragged onto the timeline. Once the image was in Final Cut Matt then made the image smaller so it was placed in the top left corner of the screen, we chose this as other videos also have the logo on the top left, this gives our video a more professional look as it follows others. However changing the size of the image also changed the size of the footage, to fix this Matt had to key frame the image. This meant the image could be selected, re-sized and moved to fit the screen without affecting the footage.

Screen Grab From MTV

 

We also wanted to add a small rectangle which indicated to the audience which song was being played and by whom. Matt began by going onto the MTV Rocks section of the website, and screen grabbing a rectangle area of the green used. As a group we thought green was appropriate as the colour is seen on all of MTV Rocks logos. The image was then opened on Final Cut and dragged onto the timeline. The rectange was then key framed and re-sized so that it would appear over the footage in the bottom left of the screen when the video played.

Adding Text

Finished Song Caption

We then had to add some text to go above the green rectangle which showed the artist name and song title. To do this the user has to select effects, there was then a folder called video generators which had the text option within. Once this screen was up we simply added the text Noel Gallagher - What A Life using a simple font called Lucida Grande. Once the text was created it was re-sized to fit the rectangle and then placed over it on the tracks. Matt then decided to add a fade to the song caption, this was so that it appeared and disappeared subtley, and did not just pop up on the screen. To do this the images were selected, then a fade was added to the highlighted images; these being the rectangle and text.