May 26th

I had a really productive day today. I re-recorded Grandpa narrating the last bit of the video. This was because the sound was really different and didnt work very well at all. Therefore I went to his house and we dubbed over the live action but this time with the camera the same distance from him as it had been for the rest of the narration. To do this i put the live action on the TV on DVD and muted it. I then recorded whilst playing the DVD and Grandpa spoke the narration in perfect lip sync to the video of himself. We had to do a few takes to get the lip sync correct but when i inserted the new audio over the old audio on the final cut it worked perfectly. This was a big problem that i had solved and although it took a lot of effort to do it was definately worth doing and has made a big difference to my videos audio.
I then worked on the title and end credits. I exported frames from the video as JPEG image files and then added the name of the cast member on top of it on Adobe Photoshop. I then added these images back into the final cut. This worked really well as credits. It is interesting and keeps the credits in the same theme as the video.
I also recorded some audio for the credits to play to. This was of an old piece of music that i borrowed from my Grandpa. I got my Mum to play it on the piano and recorded her using the sound recorder on the PC. In a audio editing software that i downloaded i got rid of the noise and put the audio into my final cut. This music still sounds very tinny and is poor quality though. I am also not 100% sure that it goes with the rest of the video. However it is definately better than the credits in silence so unless i can think of anything better i will keep the music as it is.
Now that i had the final video plus the credits i exported it as a Quicktime Animation. All i need to do now is to add the glow on After Effects and then its completed. I will add the glow tomorrow. I will also start and hopefully finish making the "making of" extra for my DVD.