Portrait of place post 10 - editing

We renamed all our shots in final cut pro so that it was easier later on in the edit, and created a rough cut in time for a tutorial with the module tutor. (See screen grabs). We found that whilst we had safety shots earlier on in the filming, we hadn’t got great coverage of the final tree scene, which were all quite long takes. We also found that the walking shots were a bit slow so we speeded them up by cross dissolving, this brings focus onto the idea that all though the character is walking through the place, he is in no way permanent like the place itself. This empowers the idea of the importance of the place. However, we found when exporting the quick way of QuickTime movie that all the transitions went wrong. Whilst it worked when doing a high quality export part of the submission criteria necessitated for the quick time movie. When we met for our tutorial we were told we needed to trans code the footage first because it was from a Dslr. This wouldn’t be necessary if the latest version of adobe or final cut pro were being used as they have been made to handle this footage natively, but there are problems with the latest final cut pro, stopping industry uptake. We were also given useful crits including; cutting down the film a lot shorter, remove unnecessary shots, sort out the pacing, and don’t return to the same shot and check camera positions. Which were all really useful, I kind of already new something wasn’t working as a whole, so it was good to get outside input.  

(renaming each clip and editing into a timeline)

We had no idea what pro res was but searched it on google and watched a tutorial video which showed us how to do it. This is a great learning experience, gaining a set back and learning how to over ride it. What it essentially does is trans codes the raw files into a new format which works particularly well in FCP. We tried to delete unnecessary footage before putting it through pro res to minimise processing time, which took a couple of hours. After doing that we imported the newly formatted footage into the project and lined it up on top of the raw footage timeline, whilst altering it following our personal choices and our tutors suggestions. Having cut it down to below 3minites we really saw how right the tutors comments were; the pacing is much improved and it worked allot better as a whole.

 

(trans coding the footage to Pro Res)

We then added the required title card exported the footage via quicktime conversion, we then played it through to check it worked. We then burnt  the file to disk, ejected and put it back in to check it worked. We then burnt a dvd through dvd studio pro checking all the settings following a guide, and burnt the disk. We then ejected, put it back in, played it through to check it worked, then checked it worked on other devices.