Editing

Over the past few days we have been coming in to edit our work from what we learnt in workshops. It has been difficult editing as we have had some problems with the RAM on the PC's at university and accessing the Q drive to get our work and edit other work. We managed to make the best with the footage that we had and I think that the result is rather uncanny and although the effects aren't the most realistic they do work.

 

 

I learnt a lot from editing and the workshops that we took part in during the course. I didn't have much experience with motion tracking and green screen and yet I managed to eventually be able to do both of these things and I think that it really helped with our final piece that we had these workshops. We all learnt a great deal from them.

Our blood rain effect isn't as great as I thought it would be, but that is largely due to the fact that After Effects simply didn't have the facilities to make a realistic blood rain effect. Therefore, our blood rain is a mostly white colour due to the opacity as we tried to make it as realistic as we possibly could. That meant compromising the thickness of the rain also, as there was a limit to what could achieved in After Effects- as most of the tutorials on YouTube required a third party plug-in to After Effects that we couldn't put onto the PC's at the university.

We managed to get around the RAM situation by making sure that the linear editing was done on Final Cut and then editing the CGI and effects on After Effects instead. This was very time consuming however and set back our editing quite a bit. Also, Jessica had some problems with her accommodation which meant that she wasn't able to join us in editing very often as she wasn't allowed to go back to get any of her work that would help us, although that was obviously out of her control.  

 

 We also added a title sequence that I think splits up the beginning of the footage and makes it more uncanny and strange, which was a good idea on Louis part. In the end I think that we did the best we could with the footage we had, as we couldn't do individual edits due to the problem with the Q drive.

We also had some problems with rendering the work as it took a long time to do so on the PC's. In the end however we managed to render everything and then put it back together in Final Cut. Finally then, when everything was rendered we were able to put it on Vimeo.