Skills Development - Editing

As our group had roughly split the responsibilities of producing and editing our music video, we had established that one of my main responsibilities were to edit the music video along with Denise. 

I had quickly learnt many new skills on how to use Final Cut Pro to my advantage. To begin with, I'd learnt that when editing a music video, I first have to mark the song on the beat, which is where I should cut. After all, you should always cut on the beat! 

I've also learnt the different types of transitions and effects that were available for me to use. One of the transitions I used most frequently is the cross dissolve, I used this between two shots that overlapped each other. 

Speaking of overlapping, I had learnt that to make it apparent to see two different shots at one time, I have to set the opacity (opacity 61) to however how opaque or full I wanted to see the second shot. 

Another skill I'd learnt on Final Cut Pro was the use of changing the speed. A shortcut for this on the Mac Computer is by pressing the 'command' key and the 'J' key at the same time. I was then able to set the speed however fast of slow I'd like it. Of which  we had chosen to speed up our cutaway shots as it made it look more exciting and effective. As well as reversing our shots too. 

Overall, I'm quite thrilled with the amount of skills I've learnt through this short period of time. Although sometimes it could be rather challenging and frustrating, having to render files all the time, but I've enjoyed the long process and I'm happy with the outcome. 

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