Editing blog

   Today we learned how to properly use a school camera ,and the editing software that we are going to use to edit our film. the editing  software is called pinnacle studios. Pinnacle studios is a Broward county school program that lets us edit film, make titles, add sounds, and add transitions to make our school films. the software has a nice complexity that lets us edit our films. There are tracks that let you layer your footage , like having a title card on layer 1 and music on layer 3. You can edit the footage to make it go slower, faster. you can also shorten the scenes to cut out unwanted or just not needed parts of the movie. Another feature you can do is to edit the sound in and out of scenes. By detaching sound from a scene, you can replace it with music, keep it and add music , or just remove all the sound completely. the last editing tool found in pinnacle studios in the editing software, is the effect editor. the effect editor is the area were you add the transitions and effects to enhance your        movie.
   Too edit the footage, your gonna need footage to begin with. to get the footage, filming is required and that needs a camera. to use one of the schools cameras, you have too get one of the agreement forms and sign it with your whole group and give it to our teacher. with the agreement form you can use a handheld camera, SD card, SD card reader ,and a tripod. With these we can film our scenes. using the tripod we can keep the camera still, and do pans easily. When filming is done, it is time to transfer the clips that are on the SD card that is in the camera to the desktop on the computer. to transfer the clips, the SD card reader is needed to be used. using the SD card reader the SD now is on the computer. With the SD on the computer now you can import and export.
   to start importing and exporting , we need to import the film we have on the SD to the desktop. its pretty simple, we just drag the file to the desktop. when we drag it on the desktop we need to make a new folder for the clips and film we do what we need to do on pinnacle studios and now were ready to save the film when we save the film , we save it to another folder. the film can be published on YouTube. To publish on you tube you just go through your email.