AS Media Skills Audit-Editing

In today's media class, we had a Final Cut Pro-Bait tutorial and learnt a few ways of editing clips. There were a number of clips that we had to put together to make a short scene.

The first thing we learnt was to use the in and out point marking device. After choosing the clip i want to use, i was able to decide when i want the clip to actually start and when i want it to finish by sing the i and o letters on my keyboard. I found this very easy to use because i was able to choose the exact time on when i want to start it just by pausing it then pressing I(In point marking) and then playing it till i wanted to pause it again on my desired ending of the b#clip by pressing O(Out point marking).

After did this, we dragged the clip to the timeline below whilst holding on the left key on the mouse then released it when the arrow in the middle of the clip is pointed down. This meant that now the clip is in the viewer section as when i was choosing the clip it was on the browser section which is on left.

When i wanted a cut to match the cut i just put in the timeline, i opened up a clip that is now in the browser section and repeated the process of point marking. However, in order to create a good match-cut, i kept on replaying the clip that's in the timeline and replayed the clip i chose in the browser section so i can see when the clip should start that would match to the ending of the previous clip. Then i would drag this next clip down to the timeline, making sure the clip is right next to the other one so that when i play it back, there would be continuity between the two clips.

After i replayed my clips, i realised that i wanted to remove an ending of one of the clips. I did this by going to the tool bar that's on the right hand side and going to the select tool at the top and clicking the clip form the start to the ending i wanted. This will remove the ending i didn't select.

Moreover, i decided that i wanted to remove a particular section of a clip in the timeline. I did this by using the razor tool in the tool bar and selecting the section the clip i wanted to remove. When i did this, i was told during the tutorial that there are two different ways of removing this. If i use the delete button it will remove it but still continue withe the next clip when played. However, if i used the backspace bar when deleting my section, it will leave a gap between the two clips.

I thought editing clips will be much harder than i thought it would be, but i got the hang of it when doing a tester of a few clips which i found really helpful as i will be able to know few things when editing my own clips.