MY EDIT PROCESS

This was a tutorial to learn how to use final cut pro. this is the process we have been though.  

In class I have learnt how to edit my video and add special effects. The first thing I learnt was to open system settings and set it up for my student drive. After getting the set up ready I then had my footage captured so I can then have the film on final cut pro. So to do this I went on menu bar and then choose log and capture, then I pressed play and now. After the film was captured, I then cut the film into each shot. I did this so I can see all the shots I have, I named them as what it shows and what shot it is. I did this by putting a mark in which is (i) at the beginning on the shot and put a mark out (o) to end the shot. After that I dragged the video pieces I marked into the storages, so it was in the storage and I named it to not get it mixed up. I did this process with all the shots, even the ones that I do not need. So I organized all of my work and stored it where all the clips are. After finishing the organizing, I started watching my first shot in the film, on the viewer, which I double clicked to have it on the viewer. After watching it I had marked the shot again to have the best bits in, after marking it by putting a in and out mark, I dragged and dropped the shot on to the time line, which in below the viewer. When I dragged the video and put them together, I did have problems with it because sometimes it had a blank space with what showing black on the screen but I had moved them a bit more closely to not have the black shot in the film. After getting all the other shot on to the timeline, I played the watch on the timeline, which the video plays on the canvas screen.

When I looked at my film, it was too long and a bit boring because its was too long, so on the right side of final cut pro there is a tool bar where are is tools you can us to cut clips, roll, ripple, slip and slide, these tools are to trim the video. The tool palette is so useful because when there is a shot that is boring, or need to be short you use the tools to make it shorter and the video work. So in my film there was shots that I did not need to I used the razor blade to trim the clips I did not need. So after a while I had my film ready to get special effects to make the film interesting then before. The Brower where our clips are, there is a section which writes effects, once you click on it you see a list on effects. On the listing there are favorites, video transitions, video filters, video generators, audio transitions and audio filters. What I went on first was video transitions where there are 3D simulation, dissolve, iris, map, page peel, QuickTime, slide, stretch and wipe. These are all the effect types there are in video transitions, so I when on to 3D simulation and there I find cube spin which moves the screen. I really liked that effect so I planed to use it on my video. So I tried using it but did not work so I ended up having cube spin on the scene where I am watching and changing the shot to my back walking. So I put it in-between the two videos and it works really good, I was scared of the cube spin looking cheap but it worked well. After enjoying using the special effects I planed to use more of them but not too much but because I did not have much clips I stopped using them and moved on to the text.

In films we us texts to see what the film is called and how was working for the film. So I planed to use a text to show the name of my video, which I named it ‘the shock’. This time and I when on effects again went on the video generators which had the listings of bars and tone, Boris, matte, render, shapes, slug and text. I went on to text and a different box came up showing the types of text there is, I went on to text and started writing. When the text came up, it showed it on the viewer, which wrote text next to it. On the video player it did not have any section to write my text, it only showed sample text with a black background. Afterwards I find out on the top on the viewer there are a section of video, controls, filters and motion. I went on to controls, which have a section to write my text, the size of the writing and the font. I only changed the writing into ‘the shock’ and changed the colour of the writing in to blue. After writing I when on video and watched the writing, because it was too long I put an in and out mark and then dragged it to my timeline, to the beginning. After that I went on to the credit, where I wrote who was the director, the camera man, stars, sound and who edited the film. I done this and then did the same process for what I did to the title of the film.

After getting all of the editing, I started with the sound which I used soundtrack pro to make the sound effects or music. I picked a music which was scared but after that I put on some sound effects like, breathing noises, footsteps and heartbeats. After finishing with the soundtrack I imported the sound to final cut pro. It did not work the first time I import it because the sound was not on place and the music was too long and did not go with the timing so I went back to sound track pro, and I separated the sound effects with the music and import them to final cut pro and place them on to the time line. Then I went on working on the music which I cut the bits that was too low and boring which was the beginning and the end. I used the blade which is on top of the timeline, left corner. After getting the low bits out I went on to final cut pro and check how long my film is which it was 25 seconds, so I when on the music and cut same bits again to make it 27 seconds. After getting it all done I import it to final cut pro and then place it to the timeline. It worked well but the end of the music cuts out and it sounded wrong so I went on the effects of the browser, went on the audio transition and choose fade which faded the music towards the end. After getting the music done, the film was ready to go.I really like my finished piece because every shot went well and it looks in a high quality.