The Editing Process

After I finished filming all of the footage over a period or around 2-4 weeks overall I started editing on 9/12/10 .

I created a plan of where to put certain footage after it has been captured into Final Cut Pro and this in the long run helped me a lot when decided what footage to put where as it was very easy to search .

So I started of by putting all of the clips captured into Bins which are folder but within Final Cut Pro .

I had 6 Folders

Chase Footage
London Footage
Greensceen Footage
Back Drops
Outside My House
Street Footage

During the importing process I went through each clip and placed it into one of these several folders .

After this I then starting putting clips into the timeline based on how I wanted in to look like . I had always planned to have London footage in my introduction as I wanted the Red Bus to have the text of the song name ' Last One Standing '

I completed my rough cut in the matter of around 3 hours but certain things needed to be added such as visual effects , sound effects , more advanced motion editing and tittles . All of these things would be completed within Final Cut Pro , Motion 4 and Soundtrack Pro to create everything what I wanted to achieve for my video .

After completing my rough cut I started slowly correcting small things that I felt were out of place and fixing certain slight timing issues that were wrong .

I then started working on the effects such as the tracking on the tittles 'Last One Standing' on the number plate of the taxi which just only took around 2 hours to complete to the way I wanted it to look .

After finishing of the titles I then started on the green-screen work which took several hours to complete to a high standard.

All of the green-screen work was completed in Motion 4 for a professional quality look . After finishing of the effect in motion it was then moved over to Final Cut Pro for placement editing so I could put it in order of the song . To do this in a correct way takes a long time to achieve .