Editing my Preliminary task

After all the shooting had been done on the day we began to edit our shots in FINAL CUT PRO. Whilst doing this I learned how to use the programme in order to create a successful outcome.
How I did it is as follows:

You have to SET UP THE SCRATCH DISK. This is very important and must be done before the editing happens. This is because the scratch disk is where the computer takes notes on what you are doing, so with out it memory of the series in which I edited would not be present.
Go to FINAL CUT PRO -
System settings (this will open up a window) -
Set -
Click on firewire drive and find the folder in which your shots are saved in -
Click on scratch once -
Choose -
This is the order in which I had to set up the scratch disk and every time the computer asks you to reset the scratch disks this is how it is done.

Next I had to MAKE A FOLDER. This is important because it firstly organises your work into logical places and consequently it can then be retrieved easily. How I did it is as follows:
File / new / bin – then I named the bin our group name “Millie, Clare and Sinead”. -
File / new / bin – named this one “log”. -
Dragged log into my bin named “Millie, Clare and Sinead”. (the triangles on the side next to the names of the files expand into a drop down menu to show you other files saved into that previous file).

Next you have to SELECT the items of shots in which are relevant and are wanted in the scene:
The blue triangles on the playback head select the area that you are working with. From this you can then spool through with the slider or move the cursor arrows forwards and backwards – frame by frame. -
Using the spacebar you can stop and start each shot.

The next thing to be done in the editing process is LOGGING which is putting the takes you want to use into the log bin that you have already created.
To use the IN and OUT points, press “i” key for in and press “o” key for out-
Then press “modify” and choose “sub clip”. -
Name the clip e.g. mid shot of Alex or CU of Imi. -
Then drag the named clip into the log bin. (never delete anything from here!)

Now to CREATE the new sequence which is going to be the final one in this situation but in the film industry would the rough cut because it would be worked over and over again, but due to limited time this is not the case in our situation.
File / new / sequence and name it. -
Drag it into the log bin already created. -
Double click on rough cut 1. -
Remember to always cut on the action! -
Double click on log and drag into timeline -
Whilst editing use the “B” key to chop, B standing for Blade. And use the “A” key to change the blade tool back to the standard arrow head. -
Make sure the picture is in time with the audio or if you don’t want them to be in time make sure they are not – The linked selection.

These steps are what I followed in order to create my prelim task in Final Cut Pro. Though to begin with our group found it challenging to use as this was the first time in which we had used it. Though as we progressed through the editing faze we adapted to it and the speed in which we carried it out got increasingly faster.
However we found that in the end we were very pleased with our out come as it was a true representation of our ability when we had never experienced using the video camera or final cut pro before.