PUTTING OUR SONG INTO ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS5

Before we were able to start filming on our music video, my group and I had to edit our song in Logic Pro 9 to achieve the right timings, I took responsibility for using automation (a volume control) to give us a fade out and a fade back in.

Our song was also very long initially (4 mins 36 secs) so finding footage for that length of time would be very difficult in time circumstances so I was able to cut the track down to 3 mins 45 seconds (Taking out the instrumental breaks which is sometimes done for music videos anyway) instead which still gives us the right amount time for footage (not too little).

We decided to use new technologies to demonstrate our understanding and filmed an explanation of how we did it.

 

Here is the screenshot of the edited track in Logic Pro - There were elements at the beginning that we did not want to use: I therefore cut the section and replaced it with another - the whirling sound, therefore giving us more time to film the vinyl spinning.

When we put our song into Premiere Pro, we had to change the sound levels on our music track as they were too high. When the decibels level is too high on any software, the audio file distorts and crackling can be heard, which is why it was essential our levels are lowered carefully. 

The original level of the track was 0 db, I lowered it to -1.7 as it was the highest level that would not distort.