And the real work begins...
On our part, luckily, Mahnoor and I had had a first hand experience on the software that we were gonna use i.e. The Premiere Pro since we had taken part in a Music Video competition earlier this year.
Anyways coming back to the real work. Before starting to construct the video, we had to first short list the final shots that we were to use and that pretty much took a lot of time since we even had 7-8 takes for one shot. Keeping our patience levels, Mahnoor and I took turns to filter through a large number of videos, the absolute correct ones. Separate folder was made for each scene where we labelled each shot separately as well e.g. 'Scene 5 shot 3'.
All the files were first imported into the software and and then added to the timeline scene by scene and shot by shot. The task was not exactly difficult, but it was VERY lengthy since we had to cut the shots from and to the very specific points we needed them to start and finish and they demanded very close attention of both of us. For the rough cut, too, Mahnoor and I took turns to complete it because cutting the shots and sometimes overwriting them by mistake was SO hectic and even got annoying after a while, so every time one got tired, the other took over.
The next step after setting the videos in order was to add the audio which we had recorded separately in either our cell phone or camcorder. This part we were dreading from the beginning because it always sounded such a difficult task to do; syncing each piece of audio with it's dialogue. Initially it was not so difficult, audio of Hamza's colleague was easily found and separated form the one and a half hour audio that we had to listen. Hamza's audio was separately recorded in the cell phone so was the audio for the rickshaw scene.
I thought syncing scene 5's audio would be comparatively easier than scene 4's since scene 4 contained a lot of traffic noise. But it was the opposite, syncing scene 4's audio was much easier.
The rough cut was finally complete and we were ready to move on to the final editing!
On our part, luckily, Mahnoor and I had had a first hand experience on the software that we were gonna use i.e. The Premiere Pro since we had taken part in a Music Video competition earlier this year.
Anyways coming back to the real work. Before starting to construct the video, we had to first short list the final shots that we were to use and that pretty much took a lot of time since we even had 7-8 takes for one shot. Keeping our patience levels, Mahnoor and I took turns to filter through a large number of videos, the absolute correct ones. Separate folder was made for each scene where we labelled each shot separately as well e.g. 'Scene 5 shot 3'.
All the files were first imported into the software and and then added to the timeline scene by scene and shot by shot. The task was not exactly difficult, but it was VERY lengthy since we had to cut the shots from and to the very specific points we needed them to start and finish and they demanded very close attention of both of us. For the rough cut, too, Mahnoor and I took turns to complete it because cutting the shots and sometimes overwriting them by mistake was SO hectic and even got annoying after a while, so every time one got tired, the other took over.
The next step after setting the videos in order was to add the audio which we had recorded separately in either our cell phone or camcorder. This part we were dreading from the beginning because it always sounded such a difficult task to do; syncing each piece of audio with it's dialogue. Initially it was not so difficult, audio of Hamza's colleague was easily found and separated form the one and a half hour audio that we had to listen. Hamza's audio was separately recorded in the cell phone so was the audio for the rickshaw scene.
I thought syncing scene 5's audio would be comparatively easier than scene 4's since scene 4 contained a lot of traffic noise. But it was the opposite, syncing scene 4's audio was much easier.
The rough cut was finally complete and we were ready to move on to the final editing!
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