Final Cut Express was created by Apple Inc. It is an non-linear video editing software which we have been learning to use in our As Media lessons on a Friday mornings. The video editing software is used my professional people and my amateurs such as us the media students. The man who came in, runs is own business in doing promational videos for people/companies. He was experienced in final cut express. to begin with he showed us some of his latest work which was a promotional video of a company who worked locating people in Vienna or something along the lines of that. After showing us that he started showing us the basics of the Apple mac software for example showing us how we could customise our area and the things to do with are area
Here you can see aparts which are breify labeled, the main parts should i say.
In the top left hand corner where the label 'browse clips and effect' you can add folders or they are know as 'Bins' you can create as many as you like of this, to store and organise all your clips, effects and audio pieces. Next to this is the 'Clip Viwer' this is were you can view your chosen clips from your folders/bins. The next window along is the viewer in which your final project piece is displayed in real time.
The 'Timeline' at the bottom of the page, have bits of video editied into it as chopped, swapped and changed about in it as the software is non-linear.
Also learned that there are 25 frames in a second which is basically 25 moving pictures in one second, this is for the english the americans have something like 29.97 frames. but we are only working on the English technology. For Now. This then leads me to saying that the Timeline would show your project in it final Timeline, which will have 'Timecode' ( 00.00.00.00) which then equals to ( Hours.Minutes.Seconds.Frames )
This picture on the left is what you find when you first open Final Cut Express.
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Here you can see aparts which are breify labeled, the main parts should i say.
In the top left hand corner where the label 'browse clips and effect' you can add folders or they are know as 'Bins' you can create as many as you like of this, to store and organise all your clips, effects and audio pieces. Next to this is the 'Clip Viwer' this is were you can view your chosen clips from your folders/bins. The next window along is the viewer in which your final project piece is displayed in real time.
The 'Timeline' at the bottom of the page, have bits of video editied into it as chopped, swapped and changed about in it as the software is non-linear.
Also learned that there are 25 frames in a second which is basically 25 moving pictures in one second, this is for the english the americans have something like 29.97 frames. but we are only working on the English technology. For Now. This then leads me to saying that the Timeline would show your project in it final Timeline, which will have 'Timecode' ( 00.00.00.00) which then equals to ( Hours.Minutes.Seconds.Frames )
This picture on the left is what you find when you first open Final Cut Express.
Before we started editing and uploading our video software we had to reccored on to a DV tape which take up a lot of room something like 12.2GB, i cant really remember! After spending a couple of hours recording we got about 20 minutes of footage. We plugged the video camera in to the Mac and opened up Final Cut Express the very nice man showed us how to import our video also she showed us how to 'Time In' and 'Time Out', which are 'i' and 'o' on the keyboard for a short cut. This then leads me to saying that the very nice man showed us other short cuts on the keyboard.as you can see above are some of the buttons which help make editing easyier and quicker on Final cut Express.
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Excellent detail Kim. Well done.
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