Editing Lesson Blog

     In today’s lesson i learned how to use the equipment, how to dump, how to import, and how to export. Learning all of this is very important for this commercial and for my future learning. One of the most important ones was learning how to deal with the equipment. What we had to do with them, how to be careful, taking care of it, and how return everything back. Most important the Do’s and Donts of using the equipment. Every time we checkout an item we need to present that we have checked it out. When checking out we must fill out the checkout form and we must fill in the check in form, the time and day we returned the items. All equipment must be turned in by the next day after usage of equipment. After learning how to use the equipment, how to set up, and how to work everything we can start our footage taking.
     Once done filming and shooting several clips my group now have to log into a computer to dump all the footage we took. We have to use pinnacle studios and we must only use one log in for the rest of our project. After that we have to create a folder and name it. We now have to insert our SD card into computer and open desktop to click on the “DCIM” folder which all footage should be there, if not we click on private, go on the “AVCHD” folder and all footage should be there. Then highlight everything and drop it to the main folder on your desktop. Into importing, this is where we start moving our footage and editing, cutting, anything we need to do to make it as professional as a commercial. Now building our track, we click on Av track 2, the main one, and drag all the raw footage into that Av track. We wait for it to load, until it’s completely loaded, then we continue. Then we start our affects, voice over, anything we need to edit.
     In order to save all the date, to not lose any footage or editing we have made, always click ok after any change is made. Now into adding our tittle. We click on “T”, put the tittle and edit it into the clip we need it on. We would make a slide, write our tittle, and drop it above the clip we want it on. Then we go into our motions and anything we want to make our tittle to blend in with our clip. If anything freezes or goes wrong, we reload the program, and continue. We may lose the last pieces of editing we did but we just continue. Save to files, name the file, and put it in our main folder. Then save it to the desktop. Now into exporting our saved file. We click export, next to import, we then save it and wait. We don’t do anything so we don’t lose any of our footage. We then click “MP4” and start export. Then we save and watch our file, check for any mistakes or issues, if any issues go back and fix, if no issues then we are all set.