first we open final cut server and find our footage that we shot, on the left hand side there is a side bar that has a little cog that when you press it brings down a list of options. you drop down to find the item that says check out, press it and a new box poppes up asking you where to put the files. You press the browse button and select the desktop option, this will put it on the desktop, then select to change the media into a type that you can edit using the drop down box on the left and press ok. the files will load onto your desktop.
Once they have moved across to the desktop you can then click on them to open the footage in an editing software. The editing software will open with all your footage in a box to the left.
creat a new folder calling it edit bin and then go thru all your shots selecting which ones you want and which ones you dont, place the ones you want into the editing bin and rename them appropriatly (to do this you press the modify button on the top of the screen, this gives you the option to rename it.) and leave the ones you dont in the original folder.
Logging our shots:
when selecting the shots go thru them carefully watching them to make sure that they are not out of focus, or not bubbled (leveled correctly), or that they are to fast, or the light is not ballanced, basically any shot you do not like as a group you get rid of leaving in the rushes bin, moving all those that you do like into your editing bin.
Organising your shots:
when it comes to organising your shots you have to think about how much screen time to give to the characters, and making sure you keep to the story board. We shot with two actors that we grabbed out of PS (private study) they acted out the story very well and did remember the lines very well however they did cut into each others lines to fast making it extreamly hard to edit and cut so we attempted to keep to the story board but it made the scene seem more like some sort of machine gun action sequence, which does not work so well so we have tried to cut in some calmer shots to make it a lot more calm but we need to stick to the story board and this is not really working out.
Editing in final cut:
when editing in final cut I found it really easy to cut to the exact place that we needed to cut to in the shots and the audio, the only thing that does not work out is that the actors cut into one anothers audio to fast making the editing really fast and seem like an action scene. We told the actors not to play around while acting and to not play with their hair so that the shots made sence. Wells the male actor in our Prelim is quite fidgety and we had several problems with the cutting as his hands where always doing something different. so the continuity was slightly off but we have sort of managed to cut it correctly.
The final cut program works like any editing software, two screens to view, one to view the shots in the editing bin and the other to view the shots that you bring down into the time line.
The time line:
the time line is the basic cutting floor you can add shots, take away shots, cut the shots to exact frames, add frames to the begining of shots or the end of them and do the same with the audio.
while using the time line you can get the parts of shots that you need to the areas that you need them in. you can also make sound bridges linking the audio to another visual shot.
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