Finishing up performance cut and starting the rough cut

I was not here on the Wednesday lesson, the group whilst I was gone synced up all the footage that was fell out of sync and finished the last few seconds of the performance cut.
On Friday, I came into the edit suite during my free.

I duplicated the timeline and started to set up one that we were going to use for our rough edit of all the footage will all three elements in it. Because in the previous lesson we had issues with the sync, it took quite a while to fix because we had synced up all the other clips on a separate timeline. The issue was that when we tried to bring the synced up clips across to the "cut" timeline (which included our performance cut) they synced up clips would overlap that edit of the performance cut. Anna came in and we spend about half an hour trying to figure out how to get past this.

struggling 

Eventually we figured out that we had to move all of the clips that we had edited into the first and second video tracks.

(Anna's photo) All of the clips are scattered around the timeline and in different video tracks. To solve it we moved all the clips in to V1 and V2.

We then locked the tracks so that they would not be overridden when we brought in the synced up tracks.

(Taken off google)

Then we were able to have a full timeline to set up so that we could begin editing. By this time it was the lesson. And Alen and I continued to edit whilst Alec and Anna worked on the digipak and website. Between us we discussed how the edit should flow and specifically where we could bring in other elements and keep the cut interesting.

Anna's Computer - Website

Alen and I working on Hugo's dance sequence.

We decided that the first thing we wanted to bring in is Hugo slow motion dance sequence, to do this we had to go on Adobe After Effects and add and Echo to the footage. This as well took a while because if we exported the edited footage in normal speed out of After Effects and brought it into Premier Pro then changed the speed, the footage would then be laggy. So we had to add the echo and then slow it down in after effects, then export and convert the footage which we then were able to bring in Premier Pro. Learning about this issue took quite a while as when we encountered another issue. The echo time would would look shorter when the film was slowed down, unfortunately because of the limitation of after effects abilities we could not watch the slowed down footage until after rendering, exporting and converting. It meant we had to do a few trial and error test to try to figure out what settings we need the echo effect to be on for the effect to be obvious. We ran out of time for the lesson unfortunately because the whole process took so long and we had to do it 3/4 times.

rendering the second trial 

For next lesson we took a photograph of the settings that for the latest export that we did and we can estimate how much we want to increase it by. Then we can start editing Hugo's dance footage into our cut.

the echo time