Lab 5: Continue Editing

BRING TODAY!: USBs (with footage), music, & headphones!

Subway Ballet (NY Times Op-Docs) from Joshua Z Weinstein on Vimeo.

To Do on Your Videos/Demos

• Finish editing your clips
• Add a title and/or credits 
• Add music (optional)
• Export for the web using Quicktime with H.264 compression
• Post your project on your blog! BEFORE CLASS NEXT WEEK YOU WILL NEED TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON VIMEO, UPLOAD YOUR PROJECT, AND LINK TO YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR BLOG! 

Final Cut Pro - keyboard shortcuts

• B = blade tool - cuts footage
• A = arrow tool - moves things around (like the selection / arrow in Photoshop)
• Z = zoom tool - looks like a magnifying glass, makes your timeline bigger or smaller
• P = pen tool - when you click on the button in the lower left of the timeline....

...you can use the pen tool (P) to make points on the video to alter it's opacity or on the audio to change the volume. 

• I = "In" point - Where your movie, or clip starts
• O = "Out" point - Where your movie, or clip ends

Review for Quiz!

In lecture tomorrow: Quiz!