Editing Lesson Blog

For this blog I will be taking about the editing lesson we went over in class today. For starters, we learned the basics of how to work the camera and where things are. For example, the sd card goes under the flip side of the camera; and to take it out, you push it. The silver button with a red line is the recording button. Make sure when doing any project, to do a few or a lot of takes. The name of the editing software that will be used is pinnacle studios. In class we learned the basics of editing and how to work the editing software. One of the first things we learned was, right click is to open the folder. We learned that “dump” is putting footage into the camera from the SD card; and that, you should always dump your footage before you give the camera back. Lastly, to find footage go to the DCIM(based on date and time). 

Now, on to the more technical stuff; when your ready to edit, click on pinnacle studios and got to the edit screen, which is the middle option. Go to “file” and then “new movie”, and clear everything that’s already there. Exporting footage means to take your footage out of pinnacle. Importing footage means to put your footage in pinnacle. To import footage from desktop to Pinnacle Studios, click on desktop , + sign , and then press folder. Click on everything you want to import and then click start import. You will be importing the footage you took before editing. Anything you need to edit you just drag to an AV track. Each AV track is for different things.

For example, AV track one is for titles, AV track to is for film, and AV track three is for music.
There are many shortcuts on this easy to use software such as, if you want to split a clip you hit the razor blade button. To speed up a clip, just right click on your mouse. When you open effects editor you’re able to edit things such as colors and transitions. To detach audio from a piece of film just right click and press detach audio. To put a title click on the T button and type what you want to press. When done, save movie in files and put in folder. To turn in it, press export and make sure it says, “Mpega, SD best quality”. Rendering means to put everything together and making it smooth. When making a movie look smooth it means to make sure that the footage isn’t choppy.