Movie Editing Process

As any media student would know, the editing is one of the most important process of any form of media, especially when filming is involved

the first step of the process was importing the video files from the camera into the premiere pro program

To do this, i simply clicked file, Import and select the files or folder which contained the clips i needed.

all of the imported clips are found in the side panel to the left of the preview window

The main tool used in editing is the razor tool, this is used to cut a single clip into multiple clips, in order to move them around, edit them separately and shorten clips

this is what the clip will look like once cut, in order to move it all you need to do is drag it and drop it where you like.

There are several tools on the toolbar, the only other one i used however, was the stretch tool.
as mentioned this tool simply stretched or shortened the clip or audio track you chose, this would speed up or slow the FPS (frames per seconds) and the speed of the audio clip, speeding up the audio track would make it higher pitched whereas slowing it down would make it slower, so editing the audio is difficult and not recommended. When this must be done in order to synchronize the audio track with the video, audio transitions can be used to blend both audio clips together

I imported the audio track in the exact same way as i imported the video clip, when editing an audio clip the tracks will appear on the bottom few rows, they look like this

the top of the 3 is the main (default) audio track, the picture of the speaker in the top left corner is to toggle the mute option, i used this for all of the audio sections of the video clips i wanted silent, i dragged the audio into the second lane labelled "Audio 2" and muted that lane.

When i needed captions in between frames rather than editing them on premiere pro, i decided to create them on photoshop and import them as image files

The images are imported the same way as everything else, the images will appear with a purple square beside them, whereas an audio track will have a green square next to it and a video, will have blue.
like every other media type, the images are dragged onto the work are, under the video section alongside videos

the eye in the top left determines the visibility of the media, i used the "video 2" lane in order to change the visibility of the scenes which i want the audio of.

when the image is placed on the track it will look like this.
in the window however it will look like this

as you can see it doesnt fit the screen, which is easily solved by clicking the image, and dragging it into the correct size, like resizing an image in photoshop

when the image fits the screen, simply press the enter key and the image will stay in that position, this process was used with every picture uploaded.

transition effects between frames and images were very important and made the difference between a smooth video and a jagged, messy video, the main transitions i used were the dip to black and cross dissolve, the fade to black scenes are useful to fade into the captions and images because the background for these images are black.

the cross dissolve transition was used between captions to make one word appear as the previous one disappears because this transition blends two clips together, this is also how i managed to get one subject look as if it was appearing as if from nowhere, i did this by using the cross disolve effect between two video clips

effects are always just dragged onto the clip, and can be stretched out to make the effect last longer.

the title sequence at the end uses the transitions Iris box, dip to black and cross dissolves.

at the end of the audio track i have used an exponential fade to give the audio track a fade out, and to stop it from sounding so abrupt i stretched the effect to make the fade gradual.

the yellow line on the audio track determines the decibel level, for the music track i increased the decibels to roughly 5.67 making the volume higher.

The yellow line on the video layer changes the opacity, taking advantage of this allowed me to ghost an image of the killers face over an image of the corrosive beaker by putteng it under the "Video 4" layer

The video may not work very well and run slowly unless it is regularly rendered, to do this, simply press the sequence drop-down menu and press render entire work area, this will make the video run smoothly and apply all effects