Sep. 18

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

My group split up into two sets of partners and each pair of us got to edit our footage from the last class in our own way. I was paired with Joseph, and after a brief editing review with Mr. Chiang (see below) we got down to business. 

The first thing we did was go through our clips, and throw out any of the simply unusable ones. For the clips that might have been useful for either sound or video we kept and labeled as such. Then came the assembly edit, then a simple cut. Because this was only an exercise and we didn't have time, it wasn't a rough cut or a fine cut, more a rather average mix of both that resulted in our final product- at least, in terms of a cut. Along the way, I also fixed the sound to the best of my ability, changing the volume levels of each one to fit the last shot, and also trying to reduce background noise by making the volume come up or down based on which part has the most gain. 

Then we found our worst shot- the final shot, which was extremely shaky and hard to see, and looked through how we could fix it. As it turns out, there is a very helpful video filter on Final Cut Pro that steadies and smoothens the entire thing, and it managed to look like a very convincing Dutch angle which we were quite proud of. Finally, we added a grayscale filter- it was film noir after all.

IB LEARNER PROFILE

Today's lesson, even with the review in mind, still required a lot of beforehand knowledge of editing and using Final Cut, and thus the most applicable facet would be 'knowledgeable'. 

CHOOSE SETUP
>Format > Apple ProRes 422
>Primary scratch disk > Documents > Final Cut Pro Documents
-scratch disk: auto save files, etc.


EXTERNAL AV: do not warn again

EDITING
1. save project instantly so that autosave files start
2. File > Log and Transfer (Shift + Cmd + 8)
3. Name preset: Custom names? Clip date footage? Numerical counter? helpful
4. Check if footage + sequence are the same: Frame size? Video rate?
-check by dragging one of the clips into the timeline
-prompted with "Change sequence to match clip settings?" and hit yes