Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Live editing diary part 6

Me and Alisha have tried to export the video. We are finished and we were preparing to show the class.

We exported it originally at 1080p, upon watching it we notice several issues

  • The colours were outlined weirdly and looked as if there was a cheap filter on it
  • The sound of us talking was hard to hear, it was over powered by the music
  • The click at the end of the video was for some reason  not synchronised with the light turning off, even though it is a diegetic sound and so it is connected to the video and should be playing at the same time. There is a delay.
  • There also was not a producer in the title which we then had to Haddon
  • The placement of my name was not where we put it last time and we attempted to move it but it jumped back into position so we had to leave it where it was.

So we turned up the volume of my speaking at the start and Alishas speaking at the part where he is underlining something. 

We then tried to export in 2 different ways. 680p and LARGE, but they both came out the same way and both did not that the light switch sound played at the right place.The reason the camera quality is so bad is because we had filmed this in very dark settings, we want a dark look and we got it, but because of the lack of light, the lenses were not able to pick up as much light as it needed for 1080p worth of video. So when we tried to render it, iMovie had tried to overcompensate for the lack of definite lines in the picture so it created its own, making it a drawn and ugly in appearance .  




We managed to move the text by simply pressing the "enter" key, a simple solution, but overlooked. Although iMovie should really have the ability to drag and move text around the screen at will, like its other free competitor, Windows movie maker and pretty much every free video editing software. It is a very simple editing effect and Im honestly shocked that it doesn't have it and we are almost forced to use a program that doesn't let you choose your location of text for a task which is exactly that. But I'll rest my case. 



We managed to fix the click delay. Because iMovie was not showing any visible issues or disorientations in the editing bay, it also did not play the delay when you previewed it so it was difficult to know what to fix because the problem was invisible. But I had the idea of detaching the audio of the video into a  seperate audio block, and this for what ever reason, cancelled out the click delay. We rendered the video in a new quality , 780p. And it worked. The quality of the video was better also and I think we may keep it. However we did notice that the ringtone of the phone was very quiet so we will turn that up and that render it for a 5th time. in 780p.  We are fiddling with the sound so its just the right amount of loud and so it is not uncomfortable to listen too. We are going to render for a 6th time with the new changes at 780p 

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