Editing Lesson Blog

    Today I learned how to check out the camera for when my group and I are going to film. I also learned how to sign out when my group and I are planning to go out of class for filming. I then learned the procedures of how we get our footage from the camera, to the computer, to the editing program, and finally to viewing. This was a simple, yet detailed process. My teacher showed us this process through a dell computer and the pinnacle studios program, but my group and I plan on using a Mac computer and the iMovie program. Although we are using different programs for the procedure of getting the footage all the way to viewing, I still learned valuable information that I will be able to use when we starting the process. She gave us instructions that no matter what you are using to edit your footage, it will apply to you. For example, terms that will be used, like raw footage, dumping, importing, track, exporting, etc. These were certain aspects of the footage to view the procedure.

  In this procedure, you start with the process of dumping. Dumping is when you get the footage off of your camera and onto your computer. So we start to buy putting the SD card into the reader and finding our footage. We then make a folder to put the footage in and it is now on our computer. Next, we go through the process of importing. Importing is getting the footage of the computer to the editing program. Through pinnacle studios, this is done by clicking the “+” icon next to the word desktop, and then simply just going to your folder and importing all the footage onto the program. Since my group and I will be using iMovie the process of importing will be done somewhat differently. Once we finish dumping, which will be the same process for us regardless of our computer, we would just click on the arrow icon and then simply just going to our folder and importing all our footage to “My Media”. The footage in “My Media” is called the raw footage because it is untouched that will soon be altered in editing.

    Once dumping the procedures of dumping and importing our finished we move onto the editing process. The majority of this process is done differently through iMovie compared to pinnacle studios. In pinnacle studios we will separate the different aspects of editing through tracks. Track 1 will be for titles, track 2 will be for footage, and track 3 will be for sound. In iMovie sound, footage, and titles are already separated for you, so you just simply move them where you want them to be. In pinnacle studios, the process of transitions and adding things is quite similar. To add titles and transitions in pinnacle studios you click on the icons for that addition, and the same thing goes for iMovie. Lastly, once finishing editing normally if you were using pinnacle studios you would put it on your desktop for viewing. With iMovie, you cannot download it onto your desktop for viewing until you have completed your entire project, but you may still view the project in a preview mode allowing you to watch it on full screen. It was good to learn both processes to compare both of them and see the better options, but after going over pinnacle studios, my group and I believe that both programs work well and iMovie allows us more flexibility with editing.