Emergency Editing

[Eric O'Neill]

Hey guys! Im having a bit of an emergency over here. I need to release my next music video tonight and the editing so going horribly. I'll try to organize my issues as much as possible to ask for help, but I think its going to come down to releasing whatever I have when the time comes. Just so you guys know, I'm editing with lightworks.

1) Polygon Masks - In the video, I am featured in the same scene playing guitar, singing, and watching the performance all at once. I did this with a polygon mask and leaving the camera in one spot as I moved through each scene. The problem is that while some scenes came out perfectly, others are quite obviously edited in. You can see the lines where I start the mask. Ive tried as much color correction as I can but there isn't any way to get it to look like one scene.

2) Lip Syncing - I lip synced the entire song for the video, but it didn't come out well. While everything is synced perfectly in my edit, the exported file is not in sync. Its like it moved the audio track half a second later while exporting. However, in other places, it turned out fine. Why are some places out of sync and others not when everything is in sync in the edit?

3) Breakdown - Its getting to the point where Im just thinking this video is not going to turn out that well. What should I do about that? Is it worth releasing a video that isn't as good as the last just to keep up my schedule? What should I do here?

Any advice will help, but I'm not too pleased with things right now so I would appreciate some help here.

 

[Munchito696]

Hey guys! Im having a bit of an emergency over here. I need to release my next music video tonight and the editing so going horribly. I'll try to organize my issues as much as possible to ask for help, but I think its going to come down to releasing whatever I have when the time comes. Just so you guys know, I'm editing with lightworks.

1) Polygon Masks - In the video, I am featured in the same scene playing guitar, singing, and watching the performance all at once. I did this with a polygon mask and leaving the camera in one spot as I moved through each scene. The problem is that while some scenes came out perfectly, others are quite obviously edited in. You can see the lines where I start the mask. Ive tried as much color correction as I can but there isn't any way to get it to look like one scene.

2) Lip Syncing - I lip synced the entire song for the video, but it didn't come out well. While everything is synced perfectly in my edit, the exported file is not in sync. Its like it moved the audio track half a second later while exporting. However, in other places, it turned out fine. Why are some places out of sync and others not when everything is in sync in the edit?

3) Breakdown - Its getting to the point where Im just thinking this video is not going to turn out that well. What should I do about that? Is it worth releasing a video that isn't as good as the last just to keep up my schedule? What should I do here?

Any advice will help, but I'm not too pleased with things right now so I would appreciate some help here.

I would never rush a video unless you are doing something about a hot topic or have something first and want to beat everyone out of the gates.

 

[echoraven]

Take it easy on yourself and loosen up on the schedule. Your trying (obviously) to create quality content and that takes time. The most critical issue (to me) would be the time sync. Sync errors tend to be due to computer resources. Are you running other applications? Can you upgrade your RAM? When I did my very first video; it would not sync. I had to run a screen capture utility to catch everything as it played. Once I upgraded the RAM things hummed along just fine, no more syncing issues.
Perhaps you can export the video only and then resync the audio. Since it seems your being creative with this video it may be using up more resources than normal. If it's syncing a nice small flat file may be easier.

 

[Eric O'Neill]

Take it easy on yourself and loosen up on the schedule. Your trying (obviously) to create quality content and that takes time. The most critical issue (to me) would be the time sync. Sync errors tend to be due to computer resources. Are you running other applications? Can you upgrade your RAM? When I did my very first video; it would not sync. I had to run a screen capture utility to catch everything as it played. Once I upgraded the RAM things hummed along just fine, no more syncing issues.
Perhaps you can export the video only and then resync the audio. Since it seems your being creative with this video it may be using up more resources than normal. If it's syncing a nice small flat file may be easier.

Hey that worked! I exported it silent from lightworks and then brought it into windows movie maker to add the sound. Worked out fine, thanks for the tip! I think the issue was that I was basically having it play/export three videos at once. Took a lot of computer power.