Today on October 14th our instructor taught us about the procedural formatting, camera techniques, and overall editing. She began with how to retrieve a camera and all of the necessary equipment needed to film. The camera seems pretty simple to use especially because it is similar to my iPhone and other common electronics. You open up the side panel to turn the camera on, close it to turn it off; simple. The tricky part was the tri-pod. You must extend the legs fully or the camera will film wobbly footage. Then we learned to screw the camera onto a plastic base and then lock the base into the tri-pod. For extra height, we can crank the lever to fully raise it an extra foot or so.
Next, after filming one must dump all footage onto a computer. You then eject the SD card out of the camera slot and then place in into the SD card reader. The reader will transfer all footage onto the computer and will store it on a desktop folder. Then the importing process begins. You first move the footage from the desktop folder to the editing processor: "Pinnacle studios." I'll be sure to upload all the footage to the server so I can pick the best clip as my shot. Then I will drag my shots to the 2nd editing line. From there, I can cut, speed up, slow down and manipulate my video in many ways. Additionally, I can add effects like transitions between scenes.
Lastly, you would add sound effects and titles to the top editing line. I can manipulate when the sound plays with the video footage. Then when the footage is all edited we export the finished movie. I will click export and the video will begin to render. Rendering will take a bit of time. In class, some of the dates have been pushed back a day or two to allow for more time. My partner and I feel that this time increase will allow for a much better quality of work.
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