Editing

When editing our title sequence we used a program called 'Final Cut Pro.' This is a professional editing software application from Apple Inc. It is only available for Mac OS X version 10.4 or later, and is a component of the Final Cut Studio product. ‘Final Cut Pro’ logs and captures video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited and processed.

When it came to editing our product, we used ‘Final Cut Pro’, a professional editing software application from Apple Inc. We learnt how to construct bin and log film to group shots into appropriate divisions. We used the drag and drop facility to add various clips to the time line and used the razor tool to cut and edit the clips so they fitted together in a coherent, chronological order. As well as using Final Cut Pro just to get our final cut of the opening sequence, we also did all our after effects and transitions in Final Cut Pro . The main transitions we used were ‘cross dissolve’ and ‘fade in fade out dissolve’. To add effects we use a ‘bloom’ effect to change the colour contrast and brightness of the images which gave us the effective flash of fire across the screen in the title sequence. We also used the ‘Colour Key’ tool to impose images behind the flames. We also did our credits sequence in Final Cut Pro using the text tool.