Editing Lesson Blog

The editing process for media is the process of cutting and putting video clips together along with adding special effects such as music, words, and transitions. Editing takes place in the post-production stage of the film making process and is probably one of the most important parts because without editing there would just be a bunch of raw footage. Today, I've learned the entire process of editing from audio to transitions. To start, you must dump your footage taken from the camera to the computer. Then, you're supposed to open a folder on your computer by right clicking. Take the SD card out of your camera and insert it into a SD card reader that attaches to the computer. When the window pops up, there will be a folder titled DCIM and that's where you would find the footage. If the footage doesn't show, go to private then click the AVICHD folder and all of the footage could be found. When you find your footage click stream and you should be able to recover the videos. After all of this, you have to move all of the files to the folder you created. You do this by highlighting and dragging all of the clips together to the folder on the desktop screen.

The next step in the editing process is to import from the computer to the actual program, Pinnacle Studio. When you open the program, you have to switch to edit mode by clicking on the word edit and wait for it to be highlighted. A huge tip is to not try and rush Pinnacle Studio because it can crash easily which can cause progress to be erased. Next, you're going to click import, go to desktop and click the plus sign. If you just click desktop, it's not going to work. When the screen with all of the clips pops up, all of the clips on the desktop will be highlighted so you must uncheck all of them and only select the footage you will be editing. Click the 'Start Import' button and wait until all of the clips show up. The video will be built on the AV2 track not on the AV1 OR AV3. The AV1 track will have titles while the AV3 track will have music/audio.

To start creating your video, drag your first clip to the AV2 track and wait for the yellow bar to disappear. Continue to add your clips and begin cutting. To cut, put the player right over where you want to separate the clips and then erase the part that needs to be cut. For others options like transitions and effects, right click open editor and add as needed. You can also detach audio by right clicking over it and deleting it. For titles hit T and create the title you want. Lastly,  next to import, click export and make sure it is saved in mp3.