editing workshop 1

We used the editing software adobe premiere pro to edit our clips and we will use it to eventually edit our opening sequence.

If you want to save something on adobe premiere pro, you press ‘Ctrl S.’ It is important to constantly save to make sure you edit is as up to date as possible, so when you delete something, it is not re-added after you close the software. Also, in case the software crashes for some reason, your work is saved. we use various technical terms in editing to describe what kind of clip we have recorded. The first is Footage. Footage is referring to the film/ video. We also use the term Daily’s and rushes to describe the raw footage that we have recorded during the day. They are the same thing, it just depends on where you are in the world which will determine which phrase the film makers will use.

A key element of editing is being able to cut the clips and put them next to another clip so that all of the footage is together and flows smoothly. In order to do this, you need to use the cutting tool. The cutting tool is used to cut clips by shortening them/ getting rid of the parts that the editor doesn’t want. You shorten a shot by dragging the end or beginning of each shot until you are satisfied with the length. When wanting to import certain clips onto the timeline for cutting and editing you can use the input and output to help shorten a clip before adding it to the timeline.

 You press the ‘I’ key when wanting to choose where to start the clip, and ‘o’ where you want the footage to stop. You may use this if you have too much time at the beginning where nothing is happening and it needs to be shortened. This makes editing a lot slicker as you are able to refine the clip before even adding it to the timeline. Also, when wanting to zoom in or zoom out, you can take a short cut. For example, if you want to zoom out, you can press the ‘-,’ key on your keyboard and to zoom in, you press the ‘+,’ key. There is also shortcut for undo on adobe premiere pro and it is CtrlZ.

Like mentioned earlier, the footage which you have shortened with the input and output gets put onto the timeline. The timeline is the box in which you drag clips and audio into, it shows you the order that the clips are being placed in and how much time each clip is. On the timeline there are four sections, the time ruler which shows the time, and it goes from left to right. 

There is the timeline header which is a column to the left, which displays which video is which e.g v1 means video 1, and which audio the audio is e.g a1 is audio 1. 

The third part of the timeline is the place in which the clips are added, and it shows them next to the timeline to show how long they are. Finally the fourth area is the timeline panel menu, which offers many configuration options for the timeline that the clips are on. 

Here is the video that me and one of my classmates shot and edited: