Editing Lesson Blog

     Today in class we learned the basics of editing for our commercial project. Our teacher first explained to us that we can only use 1 computer for all of our editing because then it takes out all the risk of losing any footage that we may have recorded. Assuming we already recorded all the necessary footage, we first "dump" all of our raw footage from the SD card into the computer. She explained to us that we should make a separate folder to dump all of our footage into. After we gather all of our footage, its time to import all of our media into the editing software. In this class we use Pinnacle Studios to edit most of our projects. We import our footage by clicking "Import" on the top left of the screen and we select all of the media that we may want to use for our project. After this we can start editing.
     To begin, we first learned about how Pinnacle Studios works. We learned that this software has layers and that you can move media from one "track" to another and it will determine which media will show on the screen first. All of your media is on the top is considered "raw footage" because they haven't been edited or modified. You move your raw footage onto the tracks and then from there you can cut, split, copy, delete, and really anything you want to do to your footage. For me, I thought of this as the time to get creative and really do anything you want to do in order to make your project look good. You can add titles by clicking the button "T" to add text. You can saturate your footage to make it look like your footage was being shot during the night. You can add music by converting Youtube music and converting it to mp3. Really you can do anything you want to do. After you feel like your project is finished, you export your footage. Our teacher told us that we should put it on the highest quality and then  convert our footage to .MPEG4 which is a video file. Last thing she told is after the project finishes, don't close the software right away but check if your footage exported correctly.
      I personally have experience with editing but this lesson was a great refresher. I love to edit and I like to really do whatever I want with my footage to do whatever i want to do. When I do my project I will incorporate all of the stuff i learned in this lesson. I personally am really excited to start filming and editing in this course and to put my ideas that i have in my head to work.

Alright this is Lucas, Imma head out.