Editing blog

Today in class we started the editing process. Editing is the process of cutting and making changes to your media .Most of the class is new to editing film. I have had some experience with editing before this class. However, it was on a different editing software. It is called adobe premiere pro. In this class, we are using pinnacle studios. This is hard to use, because our computers are very old. Since they are old, that also means they are very slow. Most of the people in our class only started their dumping. Dumping is another word for exporting, where you take your media from one place and put it in another. Some of the people in the class didn’t start, because they did not know how to use the software. Some also did not start because of the limited amount of computers. We have almost 60 people in the class, and not enough computers to go around. Some of the computers don’t even have working WiFi. I also mentioned before that they are very old and slow.

Our group did start the editing process. We started by importing our media from my flash drive, to pinnacle studios. We went through our clips, and saw which ones we were going to use. The other clips went into the trash. We did this so we would not get confused with clips that we did not need. We only had time to put the clips in order, and cut them so we would fit in the time. We still need to work on this.

Next class, we will work on putting music and sound effects. We plan on doing this by downloading them from the internet and importing them into pinnacle studios. We will drag the audio into the audio sequence. We will also put transitions. I am not sure if it is in pinnacle studios, but on premiere pro, there are transition presets that I have been playing around with a little bit. I also plan on adding video effects, like a smoke effect. This will really bring life to our commercial. It will also make our commercial look more professional.