For the past week Seher and I have spent our editing lessons trying to work out how to use the 'Final Cut Express' video editing software. With it being extremely different to iMovie we found it very confusing at first, but after watching a few videos on YouTube I think we grasped it.
We found this video first which taught us the basics such as how to import a video, how to cut a clip and how to delete the sound. This was quite useful because we didn't want the church organ music playing in the background.
We then wanted to find a way to make our footage more interesting, as I kept the camera very still when recording the windows to avoid camera shake, this resulted in the footage looking like a still photo rather than video work. This effects video helped us to understand the more 'advanced' settings you can apply to footage, but after exploring Final Cut Express ourselves, we decided we just wanted to apply simple effects.
This was the original footage imported into Final Cut Express. We wanted to remove the background noise and make the footage move in an interesting way.
The 'insect' effect was applied first, we liked the way it distorted the view of the windows. Seher and I also liked the fact that it seemed to multiply the amount of windows.
The 'ripple' video effect was then used to create a sense of movement. We agreed that this was the type of thing we were going for, however, it made the footage move a bit too fast in our opinion.
We chose to layer the two above effects together which created a moving, distorted piece of footage. We then wanted to change around the speed and colour of the video. After a while I worked out that it would be a bit too complicated trying to work out how to reduce the speed of the footage, so I exported the video file to the desktop and slowed it down in iMovie.
Overall we were quite impressed with the Final Cut Express programme we. We are considering using it to finalise and tweak the rest of our footage.
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