Editing Lesson Blog

   Today, we learned about the procedures of using our cameras and editing the footage taken. I learned that in order to get the footage onto a computer, you must use the SD card reader and make a folder to place all your footage. You then dump the footage into the folder created on the desktop. Dumping the footage means taking it from the camera and placing it onto the computer in order to edit. Once all of the footage is dumped into the folder, it is ready to be edited. We then import the footage from the folder into the editing software, Pinnacle Studios.
   To delete a portion of a clip that is unwanted, you place the red bar over the clip you want to cut. Then, you click the razor blade icon, which splits the clip. You then click the cut part of the clip that is unwanted, and press delete. If you end up wanting the cut part of the clip back, you press the back arrow, or edit, then undo. We learned how to add transitions into our clips as well. To do so, we right click on the clip we want to add a transition to, open effects trailer, click "transitions in", and add transitions to the clip as wanted. To add a title to a clip, you press the "T" icon, and add the title to wherever it is wanted in the clip. The title must be moved to the first track so that it isn't hidden by the footage, which is on the second track.
   To add music, it must be imported into the folder in MP3 form. It is then imported into Pinnacle Studios. The music should be dragged onto the track underneath the footage. To remove the original sound from the footage, you right click on the sound wave icon on the footage, detach the audio from the clip, and delete it. To save all changes made to the edited footage, you press file, then save movie as, save to desktop, save to folder, then press save one last time. To export the final edited product, you click export, settings, make it a MPEG4, in full size best quality, then click start export, save as, then finally save to original folder on the desktop.