Applying Visual Effects P4 (c)

Applying Visual Effects P4 (c)

In this section, I am going to explain what effects have I put into my music video, and how does it effect the audiences.

1. First we go to this "Effects" log. These are the effects for the music video.

2. Then we come to this "Video effect" section. Here we can see effects like "Adjust", "Blur & Sharpen", "Channel", "Color Correction" etc. 

3. First, I would like my music video to be connected, so I go to "Video Transitions". It has a few video transitions. "Block dissolve", "Gradient Wipe", "Linear Wipe", "Radial Wipe" and "Venetian Blinds".

4. In the "Video Transitions", I have used "Addictive Dissolve" between some of the clips, so they are more connected like a story. This is how it looks when I put this effect into the clips.

5. I used "Dip to Black" on the clip when Actor A felt depressed and exhausted. I used this effect so it can emphasis the sadness of the actor, and also tell the audience his mood.

6. Sometimes, my video are too slow or too quick, so I would like to change its speed. So I chose a clip that I would like to edit the speed. I right click the clip, and this will be shown on the screen. 
"Right click" > "Speed/Duration".

This will then appear on the screen, for this scene below, I would like to slow it down, so I changed the speed from 100% - 70%. So, it will be much slower then. The reason I am doing this is because I want the audiences to feel this is a happy memory and to have a moody sensation. Also allowing the audiences to see clearer what the actors are doing.

7. To be able to add effects on the clips, and also to see the effect screen. I go to "Window" > "Effects". 

This will then appear on the screen. The left screen shows all the effect controls. This can enable us to add effects and edit the video more conveniently. 

At the left, there is a block that's showing all the visual effects. If we want to apply any of these, just simply pick one you want to apply, and drag it to the video. Then the effect control screen will help us with editing. We can control how long the effect last and we can also put more than 1 effect in each clip. 

In here, I changed the colour balance.  The colour balanced are originally 100 in each Red, Green and Blue column. But I would like to create a more sad and sympathetic effect, so I decided to change the Red colouring from 100 to 90, the Green and the Blue column to 80, so the red saturation is comparatively high than the green and the blue saturation. 

That is why, we can see that the overall look of this scene is an evening feeling, the colour is red and also dark, which gives a negative energy to the audiences, and also making them feel sad and depression here.

8. After applying so effects to the video, we have to go the "Sequence" > " Render Effects in Work Area". This helps the program to run faster and avoid it to have trouble matching the video and the audio together. So we have to do it frequently.