Editing The Third Draft!

I wasn't quite satisfied with the second drafts effect and thought they were quite mediocre. I also thought i could've added much more on beat editing so I decided to re-edit the whole video starting from scratch! Now I know that some of you would think that this would be repeating a very long process for the second time, however, after completing the first draft I was able to get a grip of the program and learnt more shortcuts and tricks! This time however I made sure that I did everything methodically as i knew that this would help my editing more organised. So what I did first was lay out all the footage on the time line and made sure that the lip synching was on point on all of the footage. I then played the whole song and set all the markers using the shortcut 'M'. I also added some flicker effects which are more towards the end, however, as this involves more cutting I had to do this manually with the blade. I then rendered it and this is what I got. 

Now the quality of the footage is good (considering it was filmed in 1080p/720p) however, due to the editing it did lose some of its quality and saturation. So what I intended to do next is correct the colours, hue and saturation. I also wanted to add an anamorphic frame onto the footage. Now for those of you who don't know what an anamorphic view is, its basically the twi blocks you see at the bottom and top of a movie. There is no real technical reason why this is used however it is used as it gives 'scope' to the footage which somehow increases the quality of the footage. 

This screenshot shows how I used the curved and solids to edit the footage. also, as you can see from the screenshot I am using After effects. Firstly I inserted the footage into the timeline. I then added an adjustment layer, which is where the quality of the footage will be controlled from. I then chose the curves setting which brought up the RBG curves panel. From here i can mix all the reds, blues and greens of the footage. This is cheaper way of enhancing the quality of the footage without having to buy plugins for £100 or more! If done correctly, you will get excellent results. 

After I was done with the curves, I then started with the anamorphic view. I did this by creating two new solids; One that was 1920x1080 and one that was 1920x817. I then put two rectangle masks over the HD view which is what left the two blocks only visible and that was basically it. Next the final things which i will be adding to the music video is the filming logo, artist logo and artist promo.