Editing Lesson Blog

In today's class, we learned about how to control the cameras and the tripod. Additionally, we learned how to edit our commercials. We started off learning how to handle the camera and tripod with care. I learned how to set up a tripod and how to move the handle up and down for tilt and left to right for a pan shot. To use a camera, we must check it out. Each camera comes with an SD card and SD card reader that will hold all of our footage. To film our commercials outside the class, we must have our student I.D on at all times along with a filming pass. The tripod can instead longer so that we can get different angles with the camera being stationary. I also learned that it was important to disconnect the camera from the tripod and then close the tripod carefully so that we can prevent any damages. This is important because many usually trip or stumble upon something as they are moving.

Furthermore, after we learned about how to record and use the tripod, we were introduced to the editing process. When we are ready to edit our commercials, we go to an app called Pinnacle Studios. Pinnacle studios is the editing processor that we will be using to edit raw-footage. Raw-footage is the original recording without any editing done to it. Once we open the app, we open up a folder. Then, we put the SD card into the reader and save our work onto the desktop. To locate our footage, we would look in the DCIM. This should be based on times and dates. If you are unable to locate your footage you go to private, go to AVCHD, go to the next folder, then go to stream. To ensure that you don’t lose all of your footage, you and your group must use the same computer to edit every time.

Also, we learned new vocabulary words. We because familiar with the words dumping and import. Dumping is a term that means getting the footage that you took and transferring it to the computer. Import is footage from the computer to pinnacle studios. To import footage on pinnacle studios, we click on “t” instead of word desktop. We must make sure our footage was imported entirely. To edit we click on “edit”. We were told to leave track 1 for titles, track 2 for footage, and track three for sound. We also learned how to split our footage by using the razor blade icon. Lastly, we learned how to export our footage when we are done with the project and to make sure it's in mpeg.4 and in full size, best quality.