Editing Journal- Day 1

Editing-   is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence.

To begin the editing process we uploaded all of our footage onto the Mac, this took a long time in which to upload.

Once the footage was uploaded on the Mac we converted the footage using a software installed on the Mac called; 'Mpeg stream clip' this converted our footage in the right size and format which we needed to upload it onto the main editing software which we are going to use called, "Final Cut Pro".


Below is an image  of MPEG stream clip which we used to convert our footage with.

Below is an image taken from our editing in "Final Cut Pro" when we uploaded our footage after converting it on MPEG stream clip.

The next thing which we did in our editing process today is we placed all the clips in order of which they go in our film opening in a rough order to see the general layout which we will have and to see a general idea of how long the piece was going to be without having cut any of the clips just yet.

 Having placed each clip in order we cut the dialogue in order as well to make it easier to piece the clips together. We as a group decided to remove all the audio from the clips leading up to the conversation as we thought the audio from the previous clips were not needed as they were all establishing shots etc and no dialogue therefore audio was not needed.