Final Cut Express

Using Final Cut Express was personally my biggest challenge due to the fact at AS level I had very little invlovement as I was in all the film. This year I wanted to gain knowledge in how to use Final Cut
effectively and, I believe I have managed to do this. Intially I had help with understanding how to use different functions and tools by Katie in our group as she was confident in using the programe.

At the beginging of the editing process I helped, however was being told how to crop, cut, copy, paste and overlap footage in order to gain experience and confidence. Half way through I still wanted someone there for guidance on how to use tools and the right technique as I didnt want to mess it up.

By the end of the process I was capable of using Final Cut Express on my own without help or guidance from the group.

The areas which I was able to work on were:

• Cutting footage
• Overlapping footage with text and music
• Copying and pasting footage from different programes onto Final Cut
• Changing the duration of footage
• Changing the speed of footage
• Moving Text around
• Changing the pitch of footage