First lesson using final cut pro

Yesterday, we started using final cut pro to edit the beginning of our prelim task. Before we started we talked about the importance of using this programme and the importance of knowing how to edit. In the real working world being able to use this editing programme as a base for other programmes allows us to possibly get a job, or more likely to with the knowledge of the programme. This programme is generally used for fast changing scenes like adverts it is not used often for films, apart from the film True Grit with many fast changing scenes.

 Matt (one of our media teachers) went through with us how to open up our folder. He would show us on the big screen then make us do it too so we had a full understanding of how to get up our work. In media terms a name for a folder is called 'bin'. We made our first 'bin' called 'rush bin'. In this bin was all our original shots. Then a second bin was made called 'log bin'. This was our chosen shots which we would then edit to put in a sequence.  Once we had our scenes we had filmed up on the screen, we went through how to choose where the clip starts and finishes. Then how to make the sequence so the scene flowed. If there were voices in the background of the end of one clip you could cut them out. You repeated this with each clip and placed it in order. We got about a quarter of the way through editing our prelim task, we went slowly as we all tried to get an understanding for the programme's tools.