Uploading Footage & Editing Programmes

After filming all of the footage we needed to create our trailer it was time to upload and save all of the footage to a computer so that we could begin editing all of our footage together to create out film trailer. We uploaded all of the footage from the video camera and saved it into a folder on the computer after doing this we inserted all of our footage into Final Cut Express. This was the programme that we were going to use to edit our film trailer together. In the end we did not use this programme to make our trailer because we experienced technical difficulties with the programme.

There was a problem with how the footage saved from the camera onto the computer which meant that the clips could not be seen within final cut express because they could not be found by the programme on the computer.  We were able to hear the sound of the footage but the video could not be seen. Because of this we had to start over and instead of using Final Cut Express, we used iMovie to create our film trailer.

The reason we changed the programme was due to timing issues that we had. If we had used Final Cut express to create our trailer we would have lost 3 hours of editing time. This was because when placing clips into Final Cut Express, they have to be renders and this was a lengthy process due to the amount of footage that we had filmed to use to create our trailer

After inserting the clips into iMovie we were able to edit and create our film trailer with no problems. The only issue that we had was time, we lost a lot of time due the technical difficulties experienced with Final Cut Express so we had to make quick decision when it came to editing our film trailer together.