Skills Learned: Editing

When it came to editing the skills we had learned in Final Cut Pro when making our preliminary film were really important.

Match-cutting

Continuity editing is when the action is flowing continuously as the shots change position. For example there can be a long shot of a person holding a pen infront of them and as they move to put the pen on the table we cut to a close up shot of the hand and the pen as it is put on the table.Match cutting was important when we were filming, for example in our film The Duo when the man is breaking into the house we see him doing this from the outside and when his hand grips the handle on the sliding door we cut to the inside of the houes where we can clearly see him pulling open the sliding door and walking in. This emphasizes the point that he is breaking into the house.

Importing and sorting

When it came to importing the various clips we had taken it was vital that we kept track of which clips we were going to use and those that we couldn't. It was demanding on our organization skills as we set about previewing each clip and sorting it either into the first, middle or last scenes.

Putting it all together

Once we had imported and sorted our clips into ones we could use and into the individual scenes in the whole title sequence we had to edit them all together. Again thanks to our previous tutorial on how to use Final Cut Pro we had no problem in cutting our clips so that they flowed together perfectly. We also had no problem in adding effects and putting in the titles that we had saved separately from LiveType.

Exporting

Once we had put all our clips together and added the various transition effects between them, the music and the titles we had to export it. Truth be told it was a relatively simple process but the huge amount of settings meant we had to ask for help and soon found out that we had to save it as a smaller size and lower resolution to be able to upload it to our blogs.