Coursework - Editing Day #2

On day 2 there was much to do but i feel we could of done a lot more. Since there were 3 people in the group we split the duties between us. I started on the editing on Final Cut Express, Samuel worked on the soundtrack on the song using Garageband and Ja'van worked out how to use After Effects to create our opening animation.





I was in charge of editing and since i have edited before i was used too it. In terms of using Final Cut Express i was not that confident but i tried my best. On the first day of editing i was simply having a play around with the software and working
out how to use it, since it has been quite sometime since i used it before. I was getting my head round the video & audio tracks, placement of each individual clip as well as setting the in and out points.

Since i have edited before i had quite a good of idea of doing the muzzle flash and lens hit. It was just a matter of downloading each individual stock footage from youtube the adding it to the timeline. Since the stock footage has a black background i was having a hard time finding the composite settings, but once i found it made life easier as i was contemplating on keying out the black. The basic edit was complete it was now simply to wait to the 3rd day to get into the more complicated parts of the edit.