Final Part of Editing and Showing of Artefact

Final Editing, Problems and Solutions


My plan for the rest of the editing was to find audio and sounds to add intensity, and adding sound effects of guns and wands, and music when your character wins or loses. I also needed to keep finishing editing the rest of the footage by adding it all in the correct order and add some typography for the title screen. Once doing all this I needed to upload on to YouTube and add all the annotations.


The rest of the editing took a lot of time. As I had so much footage to include and needed to add some of the same clips as the annotations would change the positions of the video, the clip was 13 minutes long in total. I made the mistake of adding all the audio once the videos and typography was all in place. I found it difficult adding sound effects and music that would fit in time with all the audio. I added sound effects such as axe being swung, so the audio needed to fit in when the axe was swung.


Some problems that I faced was that, as I had just over 200 layers on After Effects, it was difficult trying to figure out where all audio pieces needed to go, and to make sure no layers were missed out. The program crashed a lot as well, so I needed to continuously save the file and it took a lot of time away from my work. Another problem I had when inserting my audio was that After Effects isn't the best programme to use with audio, as you can't listen to audio properly without RAM previewing or rendering the file, so it took a lot of time just to check if audio was in time. In future, I would add audio with the video footage so that it is all in time. My file was a large file, which meant I had problems when rendering. It was meant to take 6 hours to render, which is a long time to wait, and as I needed to upload to YouTube and add annotations, this was a huge worry. To resolve this, I had to slightly decrease the quality and resize the file, as I didn't want to cut my footage down, after all the work I had done.


Adding YouTube Annotations


Adding annotations took a while, because of the amount of footage I had, and had about 30 annotations to include in my video. To make it easier, I wrote down all the time of the annotations that were needed, and where each annotation would lead to. The reason for having such a long video, and a lot of annotations was to make sure that it would be different every time you watch the video, and that it wouldn't be simply just two different scenarios. In total, there are about 16 different scenarios, two characters and 4 weapons, so it would not be the same outcome each time.


If I was to do this idea again, I would slightly change it, having annotations where you could select a character you could be, as in my video, you do not have the choice. I would make it more interesting by maybe adding actual audio from the video, and maybe giving the video more of a story rather than just two people fighting, one winning and one losing. Maybe there could be a reason why the characters are fighting, and winning and losing each fight would mean the story outcome would change each time.