Editing our Final Cut

Editing

Editing is a fundamental part of our coursework and learning from our rough cut problem areas we were determined to make sure we used the appropriate tools in Final cut pro!

In many parts of our video we zoomed in as shown below. This meant we could cut out an background we did not want in our video. As you can see in the right hand clip we didnt want people wandering around the screen therefore simply used the zoom in tool to adjust this.

Split screen

As a group we very much wanted to show the clip of both emily and jake singing with an extreme close up. However, this would mean 2 clips becoming one and were unsure if we were going to be able to achieve this look.
Luckily, we came across a brilliant tutorial that helped us greatly. Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y4FIfRnbvc

This tutorial taught us exactly how to create the split screen in final cut pro.Firstly we had to place the two images we wanted to appear in the same window. We then had to resize the images so they would fit on the same screen- After we did this we then had to render(which will be discussed below).

This is Emily and Vicky working towards our final cut deadline.. busy editing..

When it came to editing it was very important that we used the correct effects and transitions, we didn't want to use loads of different effects because this simply wouldn't go with our lyrics or visuals. However from our research we discovered the use of overlays and cross dissolves and were keen to use them in our editing. As you can see below there are a wide range of effects you can use in final cut pro. We mainly used the Dissolve tool in our project.

When editing we had to remember many different parts to ensure we were using final cut pro properly. One of these aspects was to turn down the audios behind of footage. From where we had filmed there was going to be background noise therefore we needed to make sure we turned down the volume and increase the music.

The most fundamental part of the editing process was in my opinion, remembering to render our footage! Everytime we made an adjustment in final cut we had to render the video and audio to allow it to work and show what we wanted. If we did not render then the video would simply not work. This was very time consuming and sometimes a bit tedious however was the fundamental part of editing.

Editing with colour

Correcting the colour balance became a very important part of our editing process. It could be argued that the video camera we used, the quality was not brilliant. However, this was not a problem because we could change the colour, brightness, contrast and exposure in final cut pro. As you can see above, we were correctly the close up of Emily. We wanted to make the shot less bright and more of a contrast, we found changing the effect very useful so that all our footage looked the same (even though we filmed at different times of the day).