Use of Final Cut Pro

After we finally managed to export the video from iStopmotion it was time to film the beginning and end of our music video through live footage. We hired out a camera and a tripod and began filming for the part before the stopmotion video. We included why the stopmotion begins and that Ben is dreaming because of  everyday stresses like college work.
Once all the filming was finished we imported the stopmotion video and the footage onto Final Cut Pro, with this technology it was made possible to add each clip into the correct sequence. Once the video was in order and inter-joined then I imported the music file onto the software, adding the song to the sound video and then decreasing or completely removing the decibels in other scenes such as the humming in some of the live action footage, this is to ensure that the song can be heard and there are no background noises or interruptions. We used the software to make some adjustments like cutting some clips down, this was because the clips were mainly too long to keep in the final version of the video, an example was when Ben throws the paper ball in the bin, the clip was far too long to keep so we cut it down by around 8 seconds. Last of all Final Cut Pro allows a variety of transitions and effects to be added to the video and song, by adding a fade in and fade out to the live footage just before the stopmotion video begins then the fade seems to portray that time has passed or that Ben is dreaming. We did the same at the end of our video to to show the video ending, we also did the same with the song, as the original song was over 4 minutes long we decided to cut the file down to approximately 2:30 minutes, to ensure the song sounds like it ends correctly we added a fade out effect which after a few seconds dies down to nothing, this shows the song has also ended.

An image of the timeline, as you can see the fade in effect begins as the stopmotion begins making the previous footage seem as though it was in the past.

This is Final Cut Pro, To the left is where the clips and music file is placed, underneath is the timeline where clips can be dragged on or off, noise can be muted or placed over the top of each by dragging the clip above or below the current clip.