- Hey it's Justin Brown, here from Primal Video.
Recently we released a video interview
that we did with Caleb Wojcik from DIY Video Guy.
If you haven't seen the interview yet
it's definitely worth checking out,
but since releasing that video
we've had a heap of questions come in asking around
how we actually did the interview,
how it was recorded,
and also how we edited the video down.
So in this video I thought I'd
quickly answer those questions
and show you how the edit was achieved.
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So I've previously done a video
on how you can record your Skype calls,
and on Mac that was using Skype Call Recorder
and on PC it was using software called Pamela.
So if you haven't seen it yet
I'll put a link on screen now
and again in the description
and it will show you how to record your Skype interviews.
Now we're going to jump across to Final Cut 10
and open up the project file for that video
so that you can see how the edit was achieved.
All right, so we're here in Final Cut 10
and here is our completed project here,
and the interviewed with Caleb Wojcik.
All right, so the first thing we did was to
go down and select our interview tracks.
So I'll drag one down
just to show you that they come in all completely synced up.
So there's Caleb there on the top video layout
and if we just disable that now
then you can see that that's my camera there
underneath that as well.
So the first step was to go through
and edit out any of the footage that we don't want in there
and to trim down the actual edit.
So I'll just enable Caleb's track again now.
Then after the editing was done we just had to
set up the 50/50, the screen split
between Caleb and myself.
So I picked the top video layer here, Caleb.
What we did first off was to move him across
so that he's pretty central there
on his side of the screen.
The second thing to do then is to
crop the left side of his footage off
so that you're getting it somewhere close to the middle.
You can readjust the exposition,
just slide it across a bit more
until you get it pretty close.
The second step then is to grab our bottom track,
which is me here and slide me back along to the left.
That's not quite central,
but you get the idea.
I was just playing around with the crop
and the positioning of the two layers
to get the look that you're after.
So I delete those two tracks there now,
because that's exactly how we edit it
and you can see here the finished product.
I'll zoom in a little bit.
Let's get it to start.
So what we've got is my introduction for the video,
which is this section here.
This one here is our lower third title that comes in,
it says Justin Brown.
Next we've got some B-roll footage that we've overlaid here,
this track here,
these two little clips there
of Caleb's website and YouTube channel,
and we've got out intro screen here, title screen,
and then back into the interview.
So we started the interview out
with a full screen shot of me
talking and welcoming Caleb to the interview
then we jump straight to the 50/50 screen split.
Many other things that are in here are titles.
So I've got Caleb's title in the bottom there,
which is this one.
I come across a bit further
and then we're talking about his top five tips to
increase video quality and edit faster.
Then we come across to the end,
so after our interview,
it's all 50/50 split,
last title here
was where you can find out more information about Caleb,
where you can follow him,
and the last screen is the finish
and you can see we've brought the music back in
at the end here too.
So really it's just a couple of really simple tools
to help achieve a video interview like this.
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