Final Cut Express

Posted on Monday, 12 October 2009
Filed under "Induction unit"

On the 9th of October we continued our understanding of how to use Final Cut Express. On the day we started to put the film together, and input the music.

To add a scene to the film, you can either click and drag the scene on to the timeline or you can place it on to the second view screen. If you do this a box will appear (like the one to the left), there are a number of choices to choose from. if you press the insert button it will simply insert it to the timeline. However if overwrite button is selected you will lose any of the work that the yellow arrow head is placed.

To trim or edit then selected scene you can either edit the scene in the first view book by selecting the in and out timings. Another way to edit the scene is to simple click on the end of the scene (once it is in the timeline) and then move it up or down untill have the place were you want it to begin or end.

To add music to the film go to File, Import, find the music and then press okay or import. This will then automatically appear where the scene or clips are stored. Once you have done this you can just place it in to the timeline, or put it in to the first viewer scene for analyse. This is where you can find out how many beats there are to the sound. This is what professionals do to get the right scene for the music.
You can also edited or trim the music the same way as clip. Also once in the timeline, if you click on a small button at the bottom with a circle in it, you can get the to suddenly drop in music or slowly increase. However to do this you will need more than one dot on the music level so click on the button twice.

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