Developing My Skills on Final Cut Express

To edit the whole class music video, the program used was called 'Final Cut Express' and this was a program I had never used before. The first I had to do was obviously upload all the footage and save it to a document that I could access when using the Final Cut program. 
Once I had opened Final Cut I went to File, Log and Transfer to upload all the footage, but when uploading to cut off access film you would look at the middle box for a preview, and then click "I" for in and "O" for out points, then you convert all the clips needed.
After that I had to download the actually song into iTunes and then when back to Final Cut to Import, Audio and chose the song. When the music was placed in I started to edit to the music, and if a clip was too long or short you could drag the clip to make it right to fit to the music. Also, if you wanted to make a quick sharp cut, you could use the Razor Tool, so you just select and then delete it. 
When it is all edited you then exported via Quick Time Conversion, so it was saved as a Quick Time Movie, and then I uploaded it to Youtube.


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When using Final Cut Express I felt that uploading all the footage was a lot easier then IMovie and I felt that during the editing it went well. I felt that the editing went well as the Razor Tool helped a lot it was very precise when cutting the clips to make the film go with the music on time and that the lip synching was very good.   






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I felt that as it was a new program that I had never used, I wasn't that confident when using it and sometimes made mistakes when cutting the clips meaning I had to re-cut them. Also, there were some black screens, which meant that there were gaps on the timeline, so we had to edit them to lose the gaps and the black screens, which took time.