Skills Audit Editing

In our lesson, we learnt the basics of how to edit a small part of a film, using an application known as Final Cut Pro. To do this, we had to move to another media room, where we could start using the bigger apple macs. As this was a new experience to the class, we sat down & listened somewhat eagerly.

Primarily, we opened up the final cut program & the first thing we were taught how to do was inputting in & outpoints. This would allow us to determine where our clip would start & end, also how long it would last for. After playing around with this for a while, we selected a clip from a variety of them & practised how to input the necessary points. After doing so, we dragged the cut clip to the timeline & watched our clip throughout.

After this, we learnt how to implement transition effects onto our clip using the effects that were on offer. These skills would later on become very handy in helping us to produce our Thriller film!