New York Final Cut Editing & Training Exercise

2P1 Tom A - NEW YORK FINAL CUT EDITING TRAINING from Long Road Applied Media Diploma on Vimeo.

New York Final cut Express screen capture

In this task we were told to create a short movie that consisted of pre imported clips of New York, NY in america. We were told to use lots of techniques previously learnt from lesson and in our own time, ultimately it was our own time to experiment with the software.
This editing time gave us a great chance to try and carry out previous practices learnt, for example the three ways to edit.

1. The first way is to use 'in' and 'out' points, which is too drag the play head to the beginning of the clip selection you want to use and press I. And drag it to the end of the selection of clip you want to use and press O. The drag the clip from the viewer onto the time line.
2. The second way is too use the selection tool to trim and extend clips. Simply click, hold and drag the clip you want down to the desired length. This method is great for quick editing in my opinion.
3. The third way is too use the razor blade tool to cut and slice clips so that they fit much better into the project you are working on, simply choose the blade from the tools menu and move the blade to the specific place on the clip you would like to cut and click to cut the clip down to size. This method is creating for cutting clips quickly in my opinion.

I used used many of these practises in the final overall creation and production of my New York short film evidence of that is in the video clip throughout. Also featuring fade ins and special effects plus transitions.

Time taken to complete this task was between half an hour and an hour. This was due to adding various different effect as well as overall editing. Overall I found this task very enjoyable and it has set a good pathway to the rest of the year using final cut, as I am much more confident with the software.

Tom A, 29th Sept