Sunday, 10 January 2016

Post Production: Compiling and Editing

So, to edit this video, we used the software Adobe Premiere CS6. We started by importing all of the footage we took into the project, and then cropped the clips we needed and added them into the timeline. we did colour correction by connecting our laptop (Macbook Pro) to a TV screen to get proper colours. For that we used RGB curves. We also cropped our video from the top and bottom to give it a cinematic look. Also, all the shots were slowed down by using the Rate Stretch Tool. Along with that, a lot of the editing took place in Adobe After Effects CS6, which included masking. We applied the mask on the female actor, as she was supposed to be shown in colour, while the rest of the video remained monochrome. We animated the masks for each frame and feathered it out to avoid harsh edges.
Some of our handheld shots were too shaky, making our video look unprofessional, so to fix that, we used Warp Stabiliser to smoothen out the shaky movements.