Full Edit

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 Once the rotoscoping was finished and rendered, I moved on to do a draft of the full edit. We wanted to have as much effects and transitions in  the video as possible to make it stand out, and for this I has a few ideas.  

Duplicating Dylan


            




                When making the song I panned some of the vocals 
                left and right and had them come in at certain points, 
                so I duplicated the rotoscoped layer of Dylan twice 
                and changed their positions. Using the Lumetri Color 
                effect I brought down the blue and red levels on the 
                left clip.





      



    I then masked out the section of the clip I didn't want.



I then copied and pasted the settings onto the right clip, adjusting the mask and the curved to make it blue.


I then chopped up these clips so they came in at the points where the vocals pan left and right.



The Glowing Mask

I also wanted the glow level of the mask to change throughout the video, so I duplicated all the background clips and nested them.






        I then masked out the face, keyframing the mask path               where necessary.







                     I used the Lumetri Color effect again and adjusted up the                        red curve. 











I repeated these steps on all the clips in this nested sequence.



Then on the nested sequence clip on the timeline I keyframed the opacity so it fades in and out every 2 seconds.

I then nested all the party scene clips.


The Slow Pan

I keyframed the scale and position of this nested sequence so that it would have the slow panning effect we wanted initially.
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Making the Dark Room Darker



                I first added a black shape layer underneath                                                                                                 the dark room footage, then I drew a mask                                                                                                 around Dylan, adjusting the mask settings                                                                                                  to make the colour of the background                                                                         gradually fade to black.



 I repeated these steps with all the dark room clips.

Adding Chromatic Aberrations to the Woods Footage








I did this used the VR Chromatic Aberrations effect. I adjusted the settings to add a subtle amount of the effect and then copied and pasted the attributes onto each of the woods clips, adjusting each one.

Editing to the Beat


I edited some parts of the video to the music, some to the kick drum and some to the bassline. I first laid out the footage roughly where I wanted it, then I played through each part several times and used the blade tool to chop up the clips where the kick or bass hit. Once I finished chopping I arranged the small clips so the scene would change on each bass or drum hit.


Transitions

I used a transition called Cross Zoom on some sections of the video, as I felt this added some bounce to the song as the clips were edited to the beat and the transition would occur right on the bassline.




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