Making The First Draft!

For the first draft, i decided to use Final Cut Pro X! It was my first time using the program, however, it is not quite as complex and sophisticated as After Effects or Premiere Pro; however, it is suitable for the first draft as i will be simply mixing the footage together and doing some on beat editing, so the simple functionality should make it fairly quick for me to edit. We will get to the nitty gritty editing later!

Firstly I imported all the footage I needed into the panel before I started any editing. Final Cut Pro X is good for this type of editing as it allows you to add sections of the footage if you do not intend to add all of the footage. However, as it was my first time using Final Cut, I added all the footage. Once I added the footage, i then added the track in a MP3 file format (which is easily recognisable by any video editing software). So this saves me time, I then made sure I made the Lip Synching on point. I did this by muting the sound coming from the track and then increased the volume of the actual footage to see when the track started in the footage so i could match it with the actual MP3 track. I then cut the footage which was not needed. I did this to every piece of footage.

I then started the on beat editing. Theres a specific function which helps a lot in Final Cut Pro which is known as the Marker tool. It was really down to my sense of beat to mark out when the beat dropped. It was made easier by using the shortcut which is simply the key "M" on the keyboard to mark out the beat every time it dropped as the footage/track played. Once you set the markers, the will show with small blue mark points.  

I then used the Blade tool (shortcut "B") to cut the footage on the markers that i set which would allow me to cut any footage i would wanna replace with any other section of footage that I wanted to use. Again, this would've taken me much more time if I did this process with each an every footage track individually as i would have to match the lip synching every single time I cut a piece of footage. This is what it looked like when I cut some of the footage out (a lot of beat markers -_-" thank god for shortcuts!). 

Once I was finished I then rendered the footage to the correct settings! Draft One Finito :)!