Skills Audit Editing

For today's lesson I learnt how to use Final Cut Pro-Bait Tutorial.

The teacher taught us the basic steps on how to produce a short video clip.

It was quite difficult as the layout of it was all new to me. Howe

ver, I already had an experienced in editing video clips using Windows Movie Maker therefore some of the tutorial was familiar to me.

In the Final Cut Pro-Bait Tutorial there was fo

ur windows that has individual purposes. There was this wind

ow where we all browsed in our video clips, and here's an image of it:

This window above contains video clips and soundtracks.

Afterwards we were taught how to drag it in to the viewer where we played the video clip to cut some scenes. In order to do the cutting, I had to press 'I' as the input, so that it would mark where i want my chosen clip to start then 'O' as the output, so that it would mark where i want the clip to end. After I have finished cutting, I could either transfer it to the canvas where it will automatically be drag down to the timeline. And here's the picture of the viewer and the canvas:

This is the timeline, where the video clips and soundtracks are being combine to produce a title sequence. The long blue rectangles at the top are the video clips; the green below the blue rectangles are the diagetic sounds of the video clips such as the talking; and the last green rectangle at the bottom are the soundtrack in order to give an effect or to add an emotion to the clip.

The picture below is the full image of the final pro-bait tutorial program. I took this photo to show what it looks like while i was practising producing a title sequence.




We also learnt how to add transitions and special effects (SPFX) on our video if needed. I also learnt how to do a 'match cuts' on a video; which means cutting a clips in order for it to look seemless. For example: In this video clip that I have edited; the clip when the old man was taking the food from the plate then putting it in his mouth. I cutted a clip while his hands were going down on the table, then another cut from a different clip of the man taking the food in a close up shot. This is what you call a 'match cut'. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to take a picture as an example of this.

In my opinion, as long as I keep practising using the final pro-bait tutorial program, the better I will be in editing. As I said at the beginning of this blog, it was quite difficult but as soon as you get the hang of it, then it will just be like a piece of cake for you.