In our editing we use Final Cut Express, with our group I think that we used the editing material well and used it to almost its full potential, we used a lot of cuts and fades, and music overlapping. We used a Flip Camera to film our movie. We thought it was very good because of how much film it could save on the memory it had.
Firstly we had to insert all of the footage we had on the camera on to the Mac so we could edit the footage into our film.
The editing is by far the most important thing we had to do on our film. Because we couldn't just have all of the footage just bunged all together, so with inserting some transitions and cutting down the clips to make the movie shorter and look a lot better. Once you first start using Final Cut, it is quite hard to understand to start with, but once you keep using the editing software it gets much easier and you seem to have a flow to the work that you are doing. And then you will know where everything is and be able to be much more efficient in the editing process. We had a technician come in to our lesson and tell us the basics of Final Cut so he could get us started, it helped us to go and star and do the basics. But we where also given a booklet that was produced by a student from our school, this booklet went into much more detail, and helped us through the editing process, the whole booklet benefited us in the long run, because we all learnt something useful from it.
