Editing

In this post, I will be showing example of our group's editing of our film. To do this I will be showing screenshots of work being done from both softwares which we used to create our film which are Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro. I will briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of using softwares Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro. I will also describe how they work and we used them to edit our film.

Video Editing in Progress

The advantages of using Final Cut Pro is that it allows you to view several key pieces of information at once. Here is an example of how you can do this in a screenshot below. In this screenshot you can clearly see that all the clips are imported into the Project (Top Left), The current clip you are editing (Top Middle), what the clips on the timeline show (Top Right), and where each clip is on the timeline (Bottom). You can refer back to previous clips without having to switch different windows which can cause confusion at times. It therefore allow you to see everything at once, and you can work much more better, which is what makes this an advantage. Next the Software allows you to drag clips onto the timeline, and move them around with the use of the snap tool. It allows you to move the clips easily, switch and take out clips onto the timeline. without it causing any interference with any other clips. It allows you to re-shape the timeline easily. By this you can also increase or decrease a clips' length within the timeline itself. You are then able to view the effecting change immediately.

The work that you can see below in the screen shot is our group playing back the sound we have just imported in from Soundtrack Pro (see heading below) and we are playing back the timeline to make sure the sound is in sync with the film clips. 

 Sound Editing in Progress

The advantages of using Soundtrack Pro is that it allows you to edit and manipulate several different sound channels at once. So the advantage is as the same with the software Final Cut Pro, but only this time it's just the sound that this software Soundtrack Pro allows you to view and listen to. You can (depending on what sound/effect you are after) alter the volume, change the pitch or crossfade different sounds together to make one continuous sound that flows from several different sound files. Another advantage of Soundtrack Pro is that it contains, within the software a sound library of thousands tracks of pieces of music and sound effects which we can then use in conjunction with the sound recorded with foley kit and camera.

The workflow that you can see in the screenshot below is our group playing back the clip with our group's foley sounds. Here we are checking the sound matches the video footage that we have imported into the software.