Transition Year Teaching Programme 2012 Post-production

 Video editing software developed by Macromedia and Apple inc.  Allows users to log and capture, edit and output video footage to many file formats  Over the last number of years, it has become more popular with film and television editors

 Final Cut Pro is found in the applications folder on a Mac computer  On the Desktop, Click GO –Applications  Double click the icon

 Importing files into Final Cut Pro is a similar procedure to other programmes.  Go to File, Import, Files (Select your files to import)

 The Browser Window displays all clips imported into Final Cut Pro  Gives basic information about each video clip

 The Browser Window also holds many different effects that can be used in an edit  By clicking on the “Effects” tab at the top of this window, you can chose from different types of effects for your film

 The “Effects” tab displays an array of all useful effects that may help your narrative  Basically the user “drags and drops” an effect onto the beginning or end of a clip in the Timeline

You can view each clip stored in the Browser Window through the Viewer Window This is done by double clicking the video file

 The Viewer Window also holds a tab for different features.  The motion tab allows for changing many features of the video including rotation and scale.

 The Viewer Window displays the entire clip  When editing, we may only need to use various sections of the overall clip  In order to do this, we need to divide the clip into smaller clips

 Click on the Viewer Window  Press “I” where you want your clip to begin  Press “O” when you want it to end  These stand for “In” and “Out” Points and determine the length of your divided clip

 The selected clips from the Viewer Window are dragged down onto the Timeline to begin editing

 The edited clips on the Timeline are viewed in the Canvas Window

 Different types of tools are used to help edit video footage.  These tools are found in the Tool Palette  The audio levels are located beside the Tool Palette.

 One of the most popular editing tools  Click anywhere on a clip on the Timeline to divide the clip  Reselect selection tool on the palette, select unwanted clip and press backspace to delete

 This is the basic knowledge that you will need to know to edit video footage on Final Cut Pro  There are many other advanced techniques available to achieve different edits  If there is any other technique that you would like to use during post-production, just ask!