Making a movie from two clips
Start a new project in Final Cut Express
Making a movie from two clips The panels for the new project
Making a movie from two clips Find a still image for the first clip
Making a movie from two clips Looking for a still image for the first clip
Making a movie from two clips Looking for a still image for the first clip
Making a movie from two clips Selecting a still image for the first clip
Making a movie from two clips The first 10-second clip in the Viewer panel
Making a movie from two clips The first 10-second clip in the browser panel
Making a movie from two clips Selecting a still image for the second clip
Making a movie from two clips Both clips in the browser panel
Making a movie from two clips The first clip in the timeline panel
Making a movie from two clips Dragging the second clip into the timeline panel
Making a movie from two clips Still dragging the second clip into the timeline panel
Making a movie from two clips Dropping the second clip into the timeline panel
Making a movie from two clips Both clips are the timeline panel
Making a movie from two clips Export the sequence as a QuickTime movie
Making a movie from two clips Saving it as mySecondMovie.mov on the desktop
Making a movie from two clips Hiding the Final Cut panels, so we can see the desktop
Making a movie from two clips Selecting mySecondMovie.mov
Playing the two-clip movie Opening mySecondMovie.mov
Playing the two-clip movie mySecondMovie.mov is ready to start
Playing the two-clip movie 7 seconds into mySecondMovie.mov we still see the first image
Playing the two-clip movie By 12 seconds seconds into the movie, we see the second image
Saving this project Let's save this project, in case we need it again in the future
Saving this project Save it in the projects folder we created earlier
The saved project Here is the project file in a Finder window It is quite small, only 16 KB
Project files A project file can be quite small because it does not contain copies of the assets (clips or still images) used in the project Instead, it contains –the location, on the hard drive, of the assets used –the video and audio trims/edits that have been made –the order and manner of playback of all tracks in the sequence timeline –any effects/filters and transitions used
Discarding the two-clip movie Since we have saved the project, we can always regenerate the QuickTime movie again in the future So, save space by putting this second.mov file in the trash-can too
Now for an exercise Tackle Exercise 3