Emma Hall 9162
Starting to use Final Cut was quite simple, however we did run into difficulties trying to work out how to save things on the Mac or onto the External Hard-drive, and the difference between creating an Event and creating a Playlist. Once an event was created on the Hard-drive, it was quite a simple process importing the clips from our memory card in, although this did take some time as we initially imported a lot of clips all in one go. We found that the background tasks associated with importing such a large number were slowing us down and causing the Mac to crash, so we re-imported them in smaller chunks.
We then went about naming all of the clips to help make finding them easier, and started to insert them onto the timeline. This we picked up fairly quickly, along with how to insert placeholders to represent sections we hadn't filmed yet, and toggling between the pointer and the blade using the keyboard shortcuts 'A' and 'B'.
Inserting the music was also quite simple, although there were a few occasions of accidentally cutting the music track as well as whatever clip we were using the blade on. Detaching the audio and deleting was also quite easy to pick up, and so the basic techniques came together quite well. Once moving on from the rough cut to real video, we came across more difficult techniques and challenges, such as adding and modifying transitions, titles and cutting in time to the music.
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