Beginning the editing process

Today we began to edit our final work using final cut express. Firstly we uploaded all of our clips to the software using a memory stick where all of our clips are stored, this took approximately 20 minutes due to us having over 120 clips. After uploading all of the clips we organised them into chronological order to help us when we started editing and putting the clips into our timeline. The first process of editing the clips was to filter out all of the clips that we wouldn't be using, this left us with approximately 100 clips to use for our overall 5 minute thriller opening.

After working out which clips we needed, Lauren Gibbens and I started to edit the first clips. The opening credits of our film is a shot of the sky. The sky was extremely cloudy when we shot it, the clouds were dark which gave a striking deep purple effects across the clouds. This fitted really well with the effect that we intended to create by editing, so getting the perfect first time around was a fantastic start.

 here is a print screens from a clip of our film.

Final cut express is a brilliant program to use when trying to achieve professional results. We initially tried to make one long clip from two separate clips, this proved difficult as the camera had slightly moved when filming making the clip look jumpy when we attempted to render the clips. Using the 'razor' tool on final cut express we cut one of our clips into two, making a final of three clips that was to be made into one. We used different layers to make the clips blur down, this made the clip look less jumpy.



We will be continuing the editing process tomorrow

Jae