Samsung Video: UI Scalability

Just finished my most recent project, which ended up taking twice as long as normal, although I learnt a hell of a lot about keyframing and 3D camera's in Motion while making this video. We shot the DTC footage in one go, but the battery on the wireless mic ran out, so we had to re-shoot. I did a very rough cut in FCPX, before realising the audio needed producing into false stereo, or dual channel mono via MPEG StreamClip, rather than dual channel mono in FCPX. I muted all the non-voice over audio, then exported just the audio from the whole project. Then I converted that whole track into dual mono with MPEG StreamClip and re-imported it into FCPX. As I carried on editing, some parts fell out of synch, but those were quickly trimmed and lined back up again (slightly laborious but quite fun looking for word shapes on a zoomed in pair of lips...<shudder>)




I took a day out of the office to produce the audio in leafy SW19 and it ended up being most productive. I came up with some background filler to play out while the example app is being shown and some up tempo background stuff for the main body of the video which I used twice in the end.

All in all it was a really productive experience. I learnt a lot of extra things about FCPX, Motion and GarageBand. I also learnt a crucial lesson -

• LIVE MONITOR YOUR AUDIO! 

Even if you need to do it while recording video with the other hand, if you're wearing those cans and monitoring your audio as you lay it down, you'll be able to spot FU's before you close down the set (Meeting Room 7 is our set at the moment, so I need to block book it in advance...)

I've found using GarageBand > New Project > Voice to record & monitor at the same time works best for me.

Manually decide on your recording levels, otherwise you may end up with different results than expected. 

Glad to get the project online and out there into the world. Onwards and upwards!