RESEARCH | Evaluation of Lip Sync Tutorial

During our previous lesson, we were given a basic tutorial on how to lip sync and edit in Final Cut Pro. The main focus of the lesson was base tracking, we needed to focus and practice these editing skills because they are a crucial part in filming and editing our music video. Using base tracks to edit our video will be a lot easier because, it gives us more time and availability to go back and change things and hopefully achieve a good final project.

• The first thing we did was drag the original sound track to the timeline (it was around 50 seconds). I placed the track at the beginning of the timeline and then I went on to look at the footage that was available for me to use. Once I looked at all of the footage, I started dragging and dropping the clips on top of one another. It should look something like this: 

• The next thing I did was mark the first clear word I hear on the original track, and I did the exact same thing on all the clips so I can place them in a straight line, and make sure that they are in rhythm. Vernallis talks about changing music videos in terms of the beats, so I made sure to mark the track every 4 counts. After I marked the counts I made sure to cut all my clips so I can have a nice and seamless edit. It should look something like this:

• After using the blade tool and drag tool to shorten the clips, I began to delete the unnecessary clips, and the short music video finally began to look somewhat professional. I chose not to make any drastic edits because, I didn't want the audience to be confused on what's being shown on the screen. To achieve that, I had make some sort of editing pattern. It looked something like this: 

Overall, considering this was my first time editing a lip syncing video, I feel quite proud about the fact that I've gained new editing skills which I can apply in my own final music video project.