Editing Day

This is a sumary of what we did as a group on our editing day:

• We started by putting our credits in order, then we actually made the credits, by editing text on a design 'credit' and by dragging it on to the line. We then put the credits in order and then rendered them. To render the credits we used the 'cmd' button and 'r' on the keyboard.We also changed the fonts on the credits.
• We worked out how to put clips on the line inbetween other clips on the line, as we had difficulty doing this when we tried before. Originally when we tried, the clips just went over the other clips, and messsed the whole line of clips up. We just had to hold down the'cmd' button and click on the clips that we wanted to move along. It was quite simple.        
• To cut clips, we had to had to click them twice and then use the 'cutting tool to shorten our clips to the length of time we wanted. We originally had over 4 minutes footage. We cut all of our credits to 2 seconds, and cut out tiny parts of our clips. We were left with 2.10 minutes of footage.
• We then added transitions to our slides, to make them fade slowly in and out, and to make our piece smoother.
• When we had finished editing our piece, we went to the music suite to record our music. We used an Mp3 recorder. Firstly we recorded our music on an actual piano, and then we recorded it on a keyboard. Although the keyboard took away echoes, the piano played louder, and so we decided to choose that! We played our piece fairly quietly at the beginning with stacatto notes and used a crescendo to gradually make the piece louder. We sped up the piece towards the middle, to increase the tension.  We ended up with 1.04 seconds of recorded music.
• We placed our music on the line on the computer, and then we used a loops to repeat the music. We tried to coordinate the music with the clips, and i think we were successful at doing this. Once the music and the clips were correctly placed to gether, we exported our piece, using final cut express, and then we uploaded our completed piece on to youtube.