Reflection
Today, I used the video editing software Final Cut Pro for the first time to edit my video. The program was entire new to me, and the fact that it is intended for use by professionals made it very hard to grasp as compared to iMovie. Learning the new skills needed to use a professional video manipulation an editing software was a major task for this lesson, and took up a lot of time.
Previously, iMovie was the only video editing software I had ever used. After being acquainted with such a user friendly and easy to use application, graduating to Final Cut Pro was quite difficult. However, the very good quality of video produced by FInal Cut Pro and the huge number of extra features it has compared to iMovie made it very useful in creating a skillfully crafted movie from some amateurish video clips.
Final Cut Pro was very complex and difficult to use at the beginning, but after much experimentation and some fooling around with keyboard shortcuts, I soon discovered how to use it quite efficiently and quickly allowing Nic Tse and myself to quickly find the correct clips, cut out the parts that were not required, and to join all of them up with transitional effects.
Evaluation
Final Cut Pro is a very difficult program to use for a new user who is unfamiliar with professional video editing software (i.e. myself). Learning more about the features of Final Cut Pro is relatively simple over the internet, and the fact that I also possess this software at home is helpful too since experimentation is probably the most effective method of learning in this case.
We managed to finish editing the bulk of the film today, leaving us only to put in a title and credits during next lesson. This is quite impressive in my opinion, since the program was completely new to us and we managed to learn how to use the program as well as to edit virtually the entire video in only one lesson. Nic and I also had a lot of fun observing our quite amateurish acting and some very hilarious potential bloopers. We did laugh a little too much and too hard, which might have made the difference between finishing editing the entire video and what actually got completed.
In future, our new skills in using Final Cut Pro and a more self-disciplined approach to viewing funny video clips will help me to edit videos much faster and more effectively than today.
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