Editing - Presentation

Video presentation editing

un chien andalou - shows eye then cuts to the razor going through the eye, this is eisenstien theory of montage it is rhythmic montage because the next shot you see of the eye we automatically presume it is the eye we saw in the pervious shot, the whole film is shot very slowly even the eye scene.

The texas Chainsaw Massacre - There is a scene where leather face chainsaws a man who is in a wheelchair, again this uses rhythmic montage as you see a shot of the guy in the wheelchair then it cuts to a shot of behind leather face as he waves his chainsaw but we automatically think he is actually killing the men due to the editing of the clips, this is faster edited than Un chien andalou but still is slow compare to the things we see today.

Storyboard of a famous music video

Here i have 3 screen grabs from the music video up all night by Blink 182 and below these is my story board i created for it.

Kuleshov effect

This is a effect that shows for example the smirking man which is a picture of a normal man with a face expression and when someone tells you what they are looking at you interpret the expression differently   this is on i made, which shows a man with a smirk on his face but when looking at a gravestone makes him look depressed

My first final cut project - Sea world

This is my first final cut project i have edited at college, it is a 2 min promo for sea world, i have used simple edits to use this video such as insert edits and overwrite edits, i have also learnt the basic controls and short cuts of final cut while editing this video, their are a few things i could of done better like clean up a few of the video transitions but overall i am happy with my first try at using final cut pro to edit a video. 

exporting final cut projects

1. Make sure your timeline is selected

2. Click on file - export - using quick time conversion 

3. Change the title in the save as box 

4.Click on options 

5. Click video settings and change the compression type to H.264 then click ok 

6. Click sound settings and change the format to AAC and click OK

7. Click ok again and check it is going into your folder 

8. Click save 

Extra step - before you go sound settings go to video size and click on dimensions and go on 1280 x HD 

Final cut Multi cam editing

Steps 

1. Create new sequence 
2. Import - files - data - FCP7 book files - Media - leverage - multi cam
3.Syncrenise the clips ( put a in point in both clips at the same time in the clip) 
4. Select both clips - modify - make multi clips
5.Drag the clips from the BROWSER in to the TIMELINE 
6.At the top of the viewer click the middle button and click on open 
7. Go to the start of the clips on the TIMELINE and press play, and then you can use the viewer to edit the clips. 
8. Press the space bar to stop and it edits the clips automatically. 

First put a in point at the same point for both clips 

Then highlight both clips and select modify - make mulitclip 

Then dragged the multi clip for the browser into the time line 

Then go to the viewer and select the middle button and click open 

Then play the clips and click between the 2 clips in the browser

When the clips end it will automatically make a edit of the clips

Final Cut Sea World

The first thing i did was go file - import - folder, to import the whole folder of clips

Then I used the Mark In and Mark Out tool in the viwer  to edit the part of the clip i wanted in the time line

I then decieded i wanted another clip in the timeline where another clip was so i used the overwrite edit tool to put it in

I then put some text into the video

I then put a new bin into the browser

We then learnt how to put markers in by pressing M on the keyboard. This helped us mark section of the song so we could for example put each club when the beat was

final cut shortcuts

Cmd b = Create new bin
right click = to open a short cut menu
Home = Takes playhead to the end
Down arrow = Moves the play head forward to the next clip
Up Arrow = Moves the play head backwards to the pervious clip
Left arrow = Moves a frame backwards
Shift and left arrow = Moves the play head one second backwards
Right arrow = Moves a frame forward
Shift and right arrow = Moves one second forward
 J = What keyboard button it to play the clip backwards
K = Stops the clip
K and J = Slow motion
L = Plays the clip forward
Shift and space bar = Rewind
I = Set a in point
Shift and I = Moves the play head to the in point
alt and I = Removes the in point
O = Sets a out point
Shift and o = moves playhead to the outpoint
ALT and O - Removes the outpoint
ALT and x = Removes both in and out point
A = Selects the default selection tool (mouse )
CMD and H - Hides final cut pro
CMD S - Saves
CMD Q - Quites final cut pro

Final Cut Quiz

1. What are 3 ways you can open final cut pro ?

• Double click it in the dock
• Finder - Final Cut pro
• Desktop 

2. What four keys are often use with keyboard short cuts to get functions or commands ?

• ctrl
• cmd
• shift
• Option 

3. How do you access a short cut menu ?
    Right click

4. What main menu can you find the import command?
     File

5. Three ways to open a clip in the viewer ?
    Double click it
    Drag it in
    Right click - open in viewer

6. Besides the play button what other keys can you press to play the video ?
   The space bar

7. Which keys move the playhead forward or backwards in one frame ?
     Arrow keys

8.How do you mark a in point or a outpoint on a clip  ?
   Using the I or O keys

9. What button in the canvas do you click to edit a clip ?
    The red overwrite button

10. Whats visuel indicator in the viewer lets you now your  first or last frame in the clip?
      Film strip appears on the left side of the viewer

11. When viewing the audio portion of a clip ?
     A waveform display

12. Three ways to create a bin ?

• cmd B 
• File, new bin
• ctrl click

13. What are the keyboard shortcuts to save, hide and quit final cut pro
      cmd s
      cmd h
      cmd q

Final Cut Interface