Editing Lesson Blog

What I have learned (Processes, Procedures and etc.)

How to check out a Camera

• Go over to the cuby, grab a form and fill out. EVERY TIME Check out camera.

Tripods

• Unlatch them to open.
• Turn knobs to make camera tighter on tripod.
• Screw on tripod go with screw part on camera and twist it to tighten it.
• To take camera off you open latch.

Editing

• Look for pinnacle studios when you turn on computer. Either 16, 17, or 19 and they are all the same.
• Need to open up folder before clicking on pinnacle studios and name it whatever you want. You do this because you must use the same computer every time you go to edit. The footage is on the login that you logged in on the computer with. Pinnacle studios ONLY recognizes what’s on the commercial. You can save your work on Pinnacle Studios.
• Put the SD card in SD card reader and then put it into the computer. A screen will pop up. You will look for footage in DCIM. It will be in dates and times. If you can’t find footage in DCIM you can go to private, then AVCHD, and then click on the next folder and then you will go to stream. On stream is everything on SD card.
• Highlight the videos you have and drag it to folder that was made on the desktop. Then you remove the SD card reader out of computer. Doesn’t need to be ejected properly.
• You then double click to pinnacle studios. The first time you log on pinnacle studios ads are going to pop up and just press don’t show again.
• Dumping means getting footage off of camera onto the computer.
• Import means putting footage from computer onto pinnacle studios.
• You can’t click on desk top, you have to click on “+” sign. When you do that all footage should pop up.
• Every time you film import ALL of footage. Check marks on footage means you are importing that footage.
• Once footage checked press import and it is imported.
• Click edit and then anything that is up in the box is raw footage.
• Leave track 1 open for titles because the titles have to be on track 1 for it to be put in the video.
• Track 2 is footage and Track 3 is sound.
• Wait for pinnacle studios to load everything and you know that it is loaded when the orange bar is there and you have to wait for the green to disappear.
• When dragging play bar (red bar) to show video. Double tap video to blow it up.
• Hit razor blade once to cut. It splits that part into 2 and highlight the part you don’t want and then delete it. You can go to edit and press undo to undo the cut.
• You make sure the orange box is around the part of the footage you want. You right click and then detach audio. When you do that the audio will go to the bottom and you delete it.
• To put in transitions you right click on the clip and go to open effects editor and you will be able to do transitions then. You press "ok" after done and then let it load.
• To put titles in you hit the “T” . A screen is going to pop up and you will type in the title and then you can change the color. You will press the apply button and then press "ok". Then the title will pop up in the middle of the screen.
• You can take the title clip and move it to where you want. Then when you have it there you can click on it and move the title anywhere. Press ok after.
• Green bar on top of clip means you enhanced it some way.
• Can save this on desktop by going to file then click on save as and then click on folder.
• When completely done with project you will export project. A screen will pop up and you have to make sure it says MPEG4,(MP4) and that it says full size. You will then go to save as and save it as your commercial name. When we pops up you exit it. Don’t close out of pinnacle studios, you minimize it until you see that the film looks good.
• To get music you go to gmail and then click on the 9 bars at the top. Click on YouTube and then find the actual song and convert it to a MP3.