An Introduction to Final Cut Pro 5.0
I have just completed a very interesting three day hands-on course on editing professional video. Although the course was a beginners guide to Final Cut, it managed to touch base with everything it has to offer.
The course was taken by Chris Roberts who with real enthusiasm gave me a fresh look into an area I studied many moons ago whilst the process was still analogue! It awaked interest.
Day One
- Working with the interface.
- Marking and Editing
- Drag and drop editing.
- Marking in the timeline, adding cutaways (B-roll material).
- Trimming edit points with dragging, rippling edits and the razor blade.
- Adjusting edit points using Rolling and Slipping.
Day Two
- Editing with Subclips, using markers, Replace edits, storyboard editing and keeping things in sync
- Browser basics and customisation
- Capturing footage
- Applying transitions
- Mixing Audio tracks
Day Three
- Changing motion parameters, inc. clip speed, freeze-framing and variable speed changes
- Applying filters, inc. video, corrective, audio filters and keyframes
- Multicam Editing.
- Adding text and graphics (this was really only touched on with time running out)
- Finishing and outputting (also only touched on with time running out)
The three days I enjoyed. No really. It was peeking through the letter box into a palace I’m sure, with the scope of FCP’s potential but well worth it.
Walter Murch edited ‘Cold Mountain‘ using Final Cut Pro 3.0 and a bunch of Power Macs, so I’m off to watch it.
(After note: Ten minutes in, I’d forgot that Walter Murch edited ‘Cold Mountain’ using Final Cut Pro 3.0 and a bunch of Power Macs)
Hoogerbrugge helps you when your sick
On examining the new incarnation of the design museums website, I stumbled into Hoogerbrugge. A neurotic magician, a flash artist who’s Nails animations are funny and interactively odd. Never heard of the man until now but he’s a director in the wings (one hopes).
I got lost in the design museum though. Accidental discovery is great, is best, but if it’s navigationally intentional with the new website then once again I’m lost.
elephants dream
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.
The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. More about the project…