Editing lesson - credits

In today's lesson our aim was to make sure that we put the credits we had done from the previous time lesson, onto our thriller sequence. This took time to get it all done as we also had a few problems that occured along the way. I imported the credits from the live type programme onto Final Cut Pro. Then we looked at each of the credits and planned out where we would place them on to the thriller sequence. This was done by selecting the footage that we already have done and moved it across the timeline so that it enabled us to put the credits in between the places where we thought would fit best, and then closing the gaps again, after we had put all the credits into place.

As we looked at our credits we had a problem which was as we played all the credits, it seemed to play the credits fast and so you was not able to tell properly who had made the thriller. But this was over come, as we modified with the speed which was reduced from 100 to 70. This then slowed the credits down so you were able to see it properly. But yet again there was another problem as the credits did not play as it was unrendered.

I figured out that we had forgotten to press command r after we had fixed the credits so it applied onto it.

There was also another problem, which was as we modified the speed of the credits to make it slower, it also made the credits longer at the end. Nevertheless, i had come up with an idea that there was a way out of this, and this was by putting the in and out points of the credits so it cut down the extras that we didn't need and then dragged it onto the timeline removing the other credits we had.

We were able to finish adding the credits onto our timeline and had thought to get onto doing the soundtrack for our thriller. Yet again another problem had occured as we were getting onto doing the soundtrack for our thriller, we had a difficulty in opening our thriller onto the soundtraack; so that as we played the sound, we were able to also view our thriller to match which sounds fix best for the footage.

Finally, this had been fixed together as we had to also keep Final Cut Pro open and export the thriller footage onto the soundtrack. And on the soundtrack programme we opened up the video drive and dragged the thriller onto the box where we were able to view it.