Every Hollywood movie, from the blockbuster films to the retro films has
a process they go through to reach their final film. The common denominator is
the editing process is of cutting down hundreds of hours of video footage into
a cohesive, entertaining final product. It used to be done by physically
cutting and pasting film together. However it is the 21st century so it’s all done by nonlinear
editing software like Final Cut Pro which basically means that a filmmaker can
jump around his project, adding and cutting material as easily as cutting and
pasting text in Microsoft word processor. It is amazing how technology has
evolved in such a short time.
Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by
Macromedia Inc. and later Apple Inc. provides
non-linear, non-destructive editing of any QuickTime-compatible
video format including DV, HDV, P2 MXF
(DVCProHD), XDCAM (via plug-in), and 2K film formats. It
supports a number of simultaneously composited video tracks which are limited
mainly by video format and hardware capability; up to 99 audio tracks can be
added; multi-camera editing for combining video from multiple camera sources;
as well as standard ripple, roll, slip, slide, scrub, razor blade and time
remapping edit functions. Final Cut was shown in private room
demonstrations for the very first time in 1998 after Macromedia pulled out
of the main show floor.
During the process of the construction of my film, I have learnt many
more things and my knowledge of Final Cut has increased dramatically over the
duration of the editing process. At the start of the process importing a clip
proved very difficult then I found out how to do it and I wanted to be ahead of
the so after the lesson I looked up tutorials to find out the basic skills on
Final Cut. I researched how to import clips and also how to load videos that
were on iMovie. iMovie played an important part in the process of my editing as
that was where the clips were important from then once they had been loaded
they had to be exported out iMovie to the media drive. Once it was on the media
drive it could finally be loaded onto Final Cut.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" re-branding led to Adobe
Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the
13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS re-branding also resulted in Adobe
offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a
reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop,
and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation,
motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features. Adobe Photoshop
Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design
Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition. Photo shop was used to
edit the voice-overs on video however the process was a little difficult.
YouTube also played a very important role in the start, as that is
where the institutional logo was extracted. However there was more than
one institutional logo. The first was from Cipher films; the next was Stealth
films and then Motherland, my film. YouTube was also useful for getting the
heart beat and then it was edited on iMovie the pitched was decreased to give
it the real bass even though it is a mere heartbeat. It is interesting how in
just the 10 years of YouTube’s existence, how it has made such an impact in the
world. It has made careers and I’m sure it has broken careers. Over the years
the introduction of technologies has made lives of millions of people much
simpler to the point now most people don’t know how to live without it.*Definitions taken from Wikepedia.
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