Hands On Finally

Sept. 30, 2008

   The Days has finally arrived and I got my first whack at Final Cut Pro….  It was a bit more challenging than expected, the tutorials can only prepare for so much and well let’s just say it wasn’t enough.  I’ve got to cut Final Cut Pro some slack, the actual footage I was given to edit had already been edited partially.  In addition to this I didn’t really have any direction or vision.  I think I can do better next time if I’m editing some footage that I shot maybe.  I pretty much went through and made some cuts discarded some footage and even made some transitions but overall I didn’t know where I wanted to go with the footage and I don’t think I got the best out of this experience.  Next week I’ll be sure to seek guidance from my mentor and hopefully have a more meaningful second experience than I did with my first.

Alan Q

Day 2

Tuesday Sept. 23,

    I finished going over the tutorial DVDs today it seemed like it was never going to end, but I finally got through them.  The whole thing of Final Cut seems pretty straight forward in my video1 class I’m using Adobe Premiere and they both seem very similar as far as the tools and everything.  I still didn’t get a chance to get any hands on today but I did speak with my mentor and he informed me that next Tuesday he would have some footage for me to edit.

Alan Q