Editing workshop

Today we had our first editing workshop in order to prepare us to edit our main openings for our project when we have finished filming.

The editing software we are learning to use in order to edit our opening sequences, is Adobe Premiere Pro which has been used to edit a lot of well known films, like Avatar and Deadpool.

There are 4 sections within adobe premiere pro, this includes the Source monitor which allows you to playback or preview individual clips to prepare the clips before you add them to the finalised sequence. The program monitor is used only to preview the clips that have already been added to the timeline. The timeline sequence is where the full project will start to take some form. By dragging the clips you have previewed from the source monitor and then placing the clips in the order which you want them to be, you create a sequence of clips and events which play from left to right on the timeline. The media browser is the section where you can browse, preview, and import various media types. 

It is crucial to constantly save your work while you are editing, this is because incase of a power cut for example you will lose all of the work which you have edited, making you have to restart from where you last saved. There is a quick shortcut to keep saving your work while you are editing if you press 'cmd' 's'. 

Footage is the raw, unedited material that was filmed on the camera, which is then taken on to be edited to create a motion picture film.The term rushes is the term which is used to describe the unedited, 'raw' footage shot daily whilst filming. Daily's again are also the same term for the unedited footage for a film that is collected at the end of each day for viewing by select above the line members of the film crew. watching the days raw footage allows the creative team to assess the progress and quality of the shoot so they can adjust their plans going forward.

The cutting tool in Premiere pro allows you to press somewhere on the clip you are editing that will slice down the middle of the image and the audio which then allows you to move them apart separately, the shortcut to equip the cutting tool is 'Cmd' 'K' which brings up the cutting tool known as playhead splitting.  then if you wish to change back to the arrow you press 'V' on the keyboard or click the arrow key to the left of the timeline.

The in and out points show a specific size of a clip or a sequence of film. the in point is the first frame you ant to include in the sequence or clip. The out point is the last frame that you would want to include in you sequence or clip. you can do this with a shortcut for in you press 'I' and for out you press 'O'.

The + and the - in premier pro allows the editor on the timeline to stretch or compress the timeline so if makes it easier for example to cut a clip at a specific point or to quickly scroll over to the other area of the clip that is there. it is a shortcut which you can use from the keyboard.

The shortcut for being able to undo a mistake that you may make on Premier pro is 'Cmd' 'Z' which will undo what action you have just previously did.

When bringing your clips over from the source section you need to be careful about where you place your clip, this is because if you already have a clip that is in there, if you overlap that clip with a new one it will cut out some of what was previously there which means you may lose the audio and the video, so you want to make sure that you place the video with the audio apart from the others, (premiere pro will always play the video that is on top so if a clip runs through it will play the highest clip which has been placed. so make sure you either place it in the right position above or after the previous clip.)