Date: 3-4 March, 2026
Product: I Told You Things Official Music Video
Editing Software: Premiere Pro
*This was before the addition of the fourth production day.
To avoid accidentally deleting my footage, I used an SD card reader immediately after each production day to make sure I extracted all the shots. However, I did not anticipate the other possibility that the shots themselves were faulty. After sorting the scenes into different folders for better organisation on Premiere Pro, I noticed that the shots from La Muse Studio looked a bit weird. Specifically, on closer inspection, I realised that the videos' saturation was significantly different from how they originally were. At first, I assumed the worst and thought the shots themselves were the issue, but then again, they looked fine on my iPad, where I also extracted the clips. As a result, I was able to conclude that the complication came from the device. It turns out, the laptop that I was editing on - the school’s Lenovo K14 - didn’t have sufficient performance capacity to support 4k videos, which was the setting I used for these shots:( In fact, a couple of my classmates also had the same problem, which makes this even sadder:(( At one point, I even tried switching the editing software to Davinci Resolve at a friend’s suggestion in hopes of it somehow being able to handle the videos. However, it became worse as I couldn’t even get the shots to appear on the preview panel.
It came down to the option of having to convert all of the shots into H.264, which took team effort between my teacher and me. After a total of about 30~45 minutes (I may be exaggerating, but that’s what it felt like😥), we finally got to this: (*picture below)
My problems didn’t stop there, though (looking back, I genuinely went through some stuff:). I now face the issue that the transformed shots are way too saturated and overexposed. In fact, in some of the videos, I lost several details that were determined too bright to recover in the Lumetri Scope.
This then became one of the main reasons I decided to add the fourth production day, in addition to the already mentioned problems in the production diary - ep. 4.
*After the fourth production day at the Thao Cam Vien Zoo
Before I began organising the sequence, I converted the “I Told You Things” track from a YouTube video to an MP3 and imported it into my workspace.
I then began adding the shots in and cutting them to the beat right away because I wanted to lay out the full sequence and test out the pacing before I went ahead with colour touch-ups.
To elicit a vibe that is both authentic and personal, I decided to have the lip-syncing shots intertwined with narrative-based sequences to give the music video a sense of balance and dynamic.
Rough Cut #1 - Music Video Intro Testing