Editing our Prelim!

For our lesson on Thursday 27/09, it was time for us to edit our prelim footage!Adam our media teacher gave us a lesson on how to use final cut pro, so that we could pick and choose the bits of footage that we wanted to put into our final piece. and we were told that Final Cut Pro used to edit the film True grit, as it is quick and efficient.

Carla, Archie, Katy and myself then used the skills we were taught to begin editing. We were shown how to create a new 'bin' which is basically the media term for 'file'. We named this 'Rush Bin' and this basically contained all of our raw unedited footage. Another 'bin' we made was the 'Log bin' which is where we put all of the clips that we wanted to use. 

Once we had selected all of our clips, we watched them and decided which parts of the clips we wanted to put into the film. to do this, we pressed command I (in) for where we wanted the clip to start, and then command O (out)for where we wanted the clip to end, we then dragged it down into the video half of the editing section at the bottom.

We all had turns at doing this so that we could become familiar with it. 

A useful tip we were given which we used in our editing was picking one clip and cutting it, and then Transition into the next clip at the same point in time so that the two clips flowed together and made it look as if the two angles were shot at the same time. For example if you have a shot of someone opening the door, in the next shot from a different angle it needs to have a sense of continuity and have the door open as if the door was closed in the following shot it would not make sense and confuse the audience. 

I think that now i have a good basic understanding of Final Cut Pro and It will now be easier to continue to edit our Prelims in our next lesson with adam.