Editing.....*sigh*...The Finale

  Today I finished editing my commercial. I started the day by trying to figure out how to create a split screen of the videos I was editing. I later found out that the program I was using, MiniTools Movie Maker, did not have a feature that would allow me create that split screen. I contemplated what to do for a moment, before I headed to google to find a program that would allow me to do that. After a while of searching, I found another free program, called VSDC Video Editor. This program easily let me create a split screen, amongst other things. I added the 4 shots to VSDC and began to work on it. It  took me quite a bit of time to figure out how to put the videos together and crop them onto one screen. I eventually figured it out and added white lines as borders for each video. The next problem I had to tackle was the speed of the shots. One shot was way shorter that the others, as my partner did that scene faster than the others. The app I used allowed me to slightly speed up the other videos to have them in tune with the shorter one, which makes the video more smooth. I cleaned up the video and added it back to MiniTools in order to combine it with the other one. I added it to the end of the commercial and added transitions. I worked on the Gatorade logo and slogan, and added it after the split screen. I then  put in the last shot of the commercial, which is the falling scene. In terms of the video, I didn't have much more to do. I added a black screen and a fade in the beginning, faded between the split screen and the logo, and added a slide transition between the logo and the last shot. For the Gatorade slogan, I slightly shifted the words each second to create the effect that it was moving, to make that part more interesting. I also decided to change the transitions between the middle shots from a grayscale fade to a cross zoom. That was the last part I needed to do for the video, so I began to add the music. I converted a youtube song to mp3, the song being The Kids Aren't Alright by Fall Out Boy, and put it in VSDC to edit it. I cut the song down to the first 33 second, and slightly sped it up it make it fit the video exactly, which made it 29.2 seconds long. When I was done, I save it and added it to the video in MiniTools, and I was finished. 



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