Diary of Editing -Day 2 ~ William Dixon

This day, we cut up what we had filmed the day before into subclips. We also managed to get some of the clips into Final Cut and edit them up. During this we came across 2 problems. The first problem was that the tripod we used when filming was really unreliable. Basically, when we wanted to use it for panning, it was too loose to do a slow pan and when we tightened it, it was too stiff to do a smooth shot. So when it came to editing, most of the pan shots we couldn’t use because they were too wobbly. Second problem, was that we didn’t realise that when you add a new clip into Final Cut, it pushes all the other clips along, so all our synced clips so far had moved.

Although both the problems are annoying, we will take these as lessons. We now have devised a technique on adding the clips without pushing the clips. And also, we now know not the use that tripod in the filming as it’s unreliable.