Skills Audit- Editing

In my previous lesson, I learnt how to use the software program final cut pro to edit and match different scenes into a timed sequence. The clips were parts of a professionally filmed movie known as ‘Bait’. In class we had to watch clips of the film and manipulate what we wanted to use and at what part we wanted to use it. There were two screens, one which we watched the actual unedited clips this was called the viewer and the canvas, this was where we watched our personally edited film.

We had to make notes on the clips and decide on our own where we thought each part should be in our own edit of the film.

I also learnt how to use input and output tools to cut clips and close clips and then drag them to the to the timeline in order to create a sequence. In addition to this I learned how to use the razor tool to cut clips in the timeline and drag them to various places in the edited film or even use the same clip at different parts of the film.

I thought this exercise was quite fun as even though I weren't able to finish my editing I have gained experience and I have learnt the very basic skills on how to use final cut pro which will be useful later on in the unit when we have to edit our own group work.