Final Cut Pro: Technical Audit of Bait Tutorial

On friday's media lesson, the class was taught the basic skills of editing through Final Cut Pro. In the tutorial, I learnt that you cannot open up Final Cut Pro without a video drive as it has all what is needed in this hard drive. So once the video drive is connected to the apple mac computer, you can get started with the programme. I aso learnt how to mark rushes onto the timeline, how to insert, replace and overwrite clips. Then towards the end of the tutorial, we learnt how to add sound and effects such as transitions between two clips, for example a dissolve between two clips could portray time shift.

I found the tutorial very useful as I was assigned the position of editing in my group. Editing plays a big role when making movies as it gets rid of the unwanted shots and joins nicely with another shot, and this is put together through editing to make it flow. On the far left hand window, there is a window which shows you all documents of clips you have on your hard drive so you can choose from them easily. Then, next to that is a canvas which shows the original footage which you can vew/play by clicking on a clip then pressing the 'spacebar' to play the footage. Then on the right hand window, there is a viewer which shows you what you have editied so far and what you have dragged/inserted onto the timeline. You can re-arrange the different clips on the timeline whenever you want to and when it i needed.

When editing the footages, you have to watch it, and while watching it, you have to press 'i' for 'in' to mark it the start of the edited clip, then 'o' for 'out' to mark it the end of the edited clip. Then once you are happy with what you have marked in and out, you then have to drag the clip onto the timeline, then drag the yellow mark on the top of the timeline to the start of the clip to view what you have edited on the viewer. And if you are happy with your clip, you can then chose another clip and do the same process, but if you are unhappy with it, you can just click on the part you don't like on the timeline and press 'delete' to delete it.