Editing The Title Sequence

We Began today with the initial stages of editing our title sequence. We began by roughly putting all our 'good' clips in the order of our title sequence. We opened Final Cut Pro onto our screen. We then searched the shared area and found our film footage that had been uploaded onto the computer already.

We then opened a new page and immediately created two 'bins'. The first one was called the 'Rush bin' where we kept all of our video footage that was saved on the program. After we'd placed all of the footage in the 'Rush bin' we then created the second bin called the 'Log bin', in which we placed all of the footage that we wanted to use for our editing.

Once we had sorted out the footage that we were to edit, we began the editing process:

We watched the first clip over once on a small screen and picked the point where we wanted to cut it. We then clicked on the point and pressed 'I' and a small yellow triangle appeared on the timeline below the small video screen. To end the cut we pressed 'O'and a second small triangle appeared confirming the cut.

Then we dragged the chosen footage down onto the timeline where the footage appeared with the yellow triangle that signified that the cut footage began at that exact point of motion.

We then did the same for all of the seperate clips that were in the 'Log Bin' until we had all the clips of footage cut and next to one another, in order on the timeline.

The clips did not flow onto one another perfectly yet so we began to cut all of the footage on the timeline in motion to create continuity and this meant that we could avoid any mistakes and if any were made which some were initially, it enabled us to correct what we'd done wrong initially. In order to shorten or lengthen the clips to create this continuity all you had to do was hover the mouse over the timeline and a razor would appear, then you either dragged it backwards or forwards to lengthen or shorten the piece of footage.

Once we had put them in a rough order following these editing stages, to actually edit it so that each clip flowed into one another. We did this by cutting on movement. By cutting on movement, this allows it to run smoothly, instead of jumping frigidly from clip to clip.We also discovered that some clips where hard to cut on the movement, or did not flow into the other as we hoped, so we had to use a small part of another clip, and insert it in the middle to break up the 'jolt' of the unsettled clip flow. On one occasion we also had to give the effect of passing time, as we did not think about this issue in our planning,as it changed bit on the day. We did this by testing different effect, the best one we found was a shot dissolve from the passover man 1 leaving, and the car pulling up to receive the package. The two fade effect clips, fade into each other, creating an effect that looks like time has passed between the two clips. So far we have only properly edited to the point of the car driving to the cafe, for the second passover.