Introduction to Final Cut Pro

In this lesson we were introduced to a unique editing program called 'Final Cut Pro'. Luckily enough at Hurtwood House, the school have invested in buying a selection of top quality Apple Macs, which is vital to final cut pro, as the program only runs on the apple software.

We began by finding our tape of shots and making a new folder called the 'log bin'. From here we looked through the whole tape and selected out all of the shots we wanted. We would then cut each shot, re-name it and drop it into the log bin.

Once we had sorted out each shot, we could then start to play around with what order we wanted each shot to come in the scene. To do this we would select a shot, cut it down to the small part of there shot you wanted in the scene and then drag it down onto the time line. We would do this until we were happy with the scene and it played the whole way through nice and smoothly.

The last thing that we would look at would be the volume. We would look at each separate shot on the time line and adjust the volume so it sounded exactly the same as the last shot. Once this was done we would be finished. We were then told to go and apply all these techniques to our preliminary tasks.