Software I used to create my music video

Software is equally important when it came to editing my Music Video and editing my digipak is well. As I mention in the pervious post about the "Hardware I used to create my music video" I briefly mentioned that I very much prefer the software on the apple computers to the standard Microsoft computers I used in GCSE due to the many things in which I will describe here.

Apple Software- The software I used on my computer is "Apple" I very much prefer using apple software due to the programs on the computer and also, I believe it is a lot quicker than a computer with Microsoft software on.  Here is the difference between Apple and Microsoft.









iMovie- The software to edit my music video is named iMovie. I became familiar with the editing software "iMovie" when I used this program to edit my AS media project. Before I started A levels, when students took media, the software they used was named "video studio 8" and in all honestly, was not the best. There was very limited resources on the program, which limited what the student could achieve, for example, it did not offer many transitions, the font was very limited and tacky, and the worst problem was it did not support high definition cameras which was a major blow. When I took A Levels, we was first introduced to iMovie, and at first it took a long time to get used to the program due it being brand new for me. As time went on I eventually got to grips with the program and instantly realized this is a lot better then Video Studio 8. You can compare the two differences between video studio 8 and iMovie just by these two pictures.


As you can see from the two photos, (video studio 8 on the left and iMovie on the right) the vast differences between the two editing programs. Instantly you can see iMovie is the much modern program, it is a lot more clearer and up to date, whereas video studio 8 is a very old program and you can see this by the graphic design. Another difference is the spacing of everything. In iMovie you can instantly see all your footage, there are filed to side of your footage, a very clear window on the right hand side and also the editing bar on the left, whereas as you can see on video studio 8, there is only 1 screen in the center which pretty much takes your whole area up.


Garageband- When I first started to edit my music video, I had everything planned, what I was going to do, when and where to film, transitions all of these I took into mind, only there was one problem, my song was to long. The original song which was given to me was over 8 minutes long, I would of loved to of made a video for them with the original song but I had to cut the song down to a reasonable time which would give me enough time to fit in all I want to film and also allows me to save time in the process. I used garageband to cut the song because of its simplicity to use.


Disc Label- Disc Label is a new program which I have not experienced before. This has been the first time using disc label but it was a very pleasant one. Disc Label has helped me to design the CD design for my Digipak  The simplicity of Disc Label is extraordinary, it is very easy to use and also very easy to pick up which is a an excellent addition to this program.

Photoshop- To create my Front and Back album cover, the front page of my leaflet and also the advertisement for my digipak I fact used Photoshop. Again this is a brand new piece of software for me to use, so this took me a while to get used to this program. But after playing around with software, and with help from a class mate, I quickly got used to using Photoshop and I must say it is a brilliant piece of software to use whilst editing pictures. Everything you may need to do whilst editing a photo, adding text on to the photo, cropping the picture, colour correcting and much much more you can do with Photoshop with ease. With my front cover of my album, I used a black and white filter on the picture, but I edit the photo, to make sure only the outside of my legs where in black and white, not in the middle. I believe I would not of been able to achieve this technique with a software such as paint for example.