I'm just going to give an overview of what our media group used for editing software, how it was used and how effective it was to create our movie cut.
Video Editing in progress
In the picture bellow you can see the classic set up of Final Cut, On the far left pane is where all the unedited clips from the camera is imported to. From there you click on the clip and it appears in the middle screen (The currently black one) In this screen you edit your clip how you want it and finally move it on to the last screen by dragging and dropping it, it will then appear on the timeline (below the 3 panels)
This is a complex piece of software to use, but it gives the best results for editing and with a little trial and error and practice, we picked up how to use the software. Unfortunately you can't edit sound in this software, sound will appear with the clips but if you want to manipulate the sound or create a soundtrack, Soundtrack Pro is the software we use.
Soundtrack Pro
The advantages of using Soundtrack Pro is that it allows you to edit and manipulate several different sound channels at once so that you can (depending on what sound/effect you are after) Alter the volume, change the pitch or cross fade different sounds together to make one continuous sound that flows from several different sound files. Another advantage of Soundtrack Pro is that it contains, within the software a sound library of thousands tracks of pieces of music and sound effects which we can then use in conjunction with the sound recorded with the Foley kit and camera.
The flow that you can see in the screen shot is our group playing back the clip with our groups Foley sounds. Here we are checking that the sound matches the video footage we have imported in the software .
Our Ident
At the same time we were working on editing our movie we started construction of our ident 'Lime light Productions' the software we're using is called 'Motion' it's new to us so it took some time to get a handle of it, but we're finally making headway.
