Last night I stayed up to 3am editing some slow motion footage I had shot with my cats back in January 2014 when I first got an iPhone 5S, (the first iPhone capable of recording 120 frames per second slow motion video). The footage had just been sitting on my phone ever since, so I decided to use my new-found Final Cut Pro skills to edit it down into a short movie.
I learned a couple of new video editing tricks, like how to layer-up “portrait mode” footage, (vertical shot footage on a mobile phone), to fill the “landscape mode” frame, and how to fade to black at the end. It was also my first video with an audio track, (although I made the newbie error of adding the music afterwards, so I had to try to sync the music with the scene changes, rather than the scene changes with the music)!
As only my second time playing with Final Cut Pro I was really pleased with the outcome, although I kind of regretted the decision when the alarm went off at 8am this morning!
Slow motion play with cats – by Neil Hillman
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[music by Johnny Rock – https://soundcloud.com/johnnyrockmusic]
