The first thing I did in Final Cut was chop the animation up into separate clips of each shot using the razor tool. Each shot on its own I went in and re-framed each shot. These were just standard changing the scale and position of the shots so that the edges of the table couldn’t be seen.
After re-framing all the shots I went in a changed some of the timing. On the first shot of the old man walking into frame I used the razor to cut the last frame of that shot into a separate shot. I then changed the length of it to about 7 seconds. This made it so that the man just settled for a couple of seconds after he stopped walking, which gave the viewer a little time to take in the action. I did a couple of other edits along this line, mainly just lengthening the first and last frames of shots. I also cut out a few frames from shots were hands were visible.
In terms of editing the voice over in I didn’t really edit the visuals to the audio, but instead edited the audio to animation. I turned the wave forms on so I could see what the sound looked like and then used the razor to cut the recording up into smaller recordings of each verse. I then moved the verses around to make them fit the animation.
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