Editing my prelim task

Final Cut Pro

During the editing i learnt how to use 'Final cut pro' and 'Final cut server'. The first task we had to do was learn how check in and out of these programmes. To check out you had to click on the clog , this checked out your work. Once it had checked out there was a little yellow pen icon. All of a sudden a massive blue folder appeared on the desktop, making it easy to acsess in the future. All you had to do to check back in is click on the folder and your groups name. To keep you work tidy on these programmes you use things called 'bins' they are a bit like folders and keep your clips seperate from one another. The clips that you think are going to be useful are called the log bins and those which you think won't be as usuful are called the rush bins.

 I thought that editing was extreamly awarding as I liked seeing all the clips creating a narrative. Also,

I really liked the group that i was in which meant that we had a good time as well as being productive.

 I thought that the programme 'Final cut pro' was confusing as I had never used anything like it before. It became increasingly more stressful as the week went on as we all became really tired and ended up fighing over the computer making it harder to finnish the work we had been set.

 When i was younger I used a programme called garage band which is slightly similar to Final cut pro but instead of films it's for music. Therefore i found it quite easy to set up and match the scenes as i had previously had some practice.

To be honest, I don't think that the extra shots made much of a difference as we only used one of them, however i could see how they would in our actual thriller.

  I think if we were to do this again i would want to have a smaller group as i think there being too many of us made it hard to do the editing as we all wanted a go, whereas if there were fewer then there would be fewer arguements and we would get more work done. I think overall my team did pretty well and we were all pretty kean to have a go at editing which made it clear that we all played equal roles.