Anthony McCann reading I Was Alive, an erasure poem based on the text of Frankenstein.

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EXPORTING YOUR FILE

Make sure to save your project. (File > Save)

After saving your project go to the file section and select Export > Quicktime Movie.

You will now be prompted to save your new exported Quicktime Movie, making a new exported file. Make sure to select Make Movie Self-Contained. Select Include Audio and Video if you want to include the audio in your movie, and just video if you want to just include the video. Make sure to save the movie under your Work Files or personal file locations.

The file will be saved in the location designated and look like this.

Not like this !!! (This is your saved project, not a Quicktime document).
Congratulations, you are now a video editor. Hollywood awaits!

Now that you can manipulate your segments along the timeline you may feel the desire to add transitions or effects to your footage. If you look in your bin, click on the folder titled effects.

With in the effects folder click on Video Transitions. Drag and drop your selected transition at the intersection of two segments on the timeline.

Click on the Video Filters option with in the selections in the bin. Drag and drop the video filter onto the segment that you would like to add the effect to.

TIMELINE

After you have imported your files, your files will appear in the bin. As a segment, similar to the segment “message in a bottle” below. The “sequence 1” envelopes and entire timeline, and is the sum of many segments. At this point in time you may still change the names/descriptions of sequences and segments, by clicking on them.

In order to begin making your movie, drag and drop the segment into the timeline. Your segment will appear with a blue bar, and two green bars. The two green bars represent the two channels of audio. The blue bar represents your one channel of video.

The viewer correlates to your timeline and the segments on the timeline.

The options at the bottom of the viewer controls the playhead within the time line. Clicking play or space bar will begin playing your movie. The controls for fast forward and skipping ahead to the end of the movie are to the right of the play button or “L”. The controls for rewind or and skipping to the end of the movie are to the left of the play button or “J”.

The canvas correlates to individual segments. Double clicking an individual segment will make it appear within the canvas. This allows you to manipulate a segment with in the canvas instead of along the timeline.

After the segment is on the timeline, you may manipulate the segment that is within the sequence with the attributes found in the tool box. The most commonly used attributes are the arrow pointer that selects your desired objects or positions the play head along the timeline.

And the razor tool which cuts your segment along the timeline.

Select the razor, and cut a portion of your segment. Creating two cuts will create a new segment with in your original segment.

Now you can use your arrow tool to drag and drop the segments into the spaces that you would like them to occupy.

If you have a red bar at the time of the timeline, the sequence needs to be rendered. Apple + R will render your sequence, or you can go to the top of your file bar and select Sequence > Render All > Both.

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Ctrl + Click in the open space will provide you with the option to move the two segments together.

Apple + Z will undo any changes that you have made during your edit.

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Plug in your camera to the computer’s firewire input, with the special camera to computer connector firewire cable. (note:for class cameras the input is behind the battery). Turn Camera On, and set camera to VCR setting. Plug in Lacie External harddrive with fire wire cord to computer.

Open Final Cut Express

Set up Scratch disk settings by going to Final Cut HD >Go to System Settings

Select Set > Allocate the settings to your Lacie External Hard drive…then click OK

Go to File > Open Log and Capture or Quick Key (Apple + 8)

Set Titles for individual clips under clip settings. For example Description: Bob Falls Off the Chair. Scene: Bob’s Spill Shot/Take: 1

***note*** for the sake of organization, choose titles that are closely correlated to the footage you are viewing.

Go To VTR setting on Capture Screen and Play Footage or use your camera as a video deck and press play in the VCR setting of the camera. Press Capture Now to save the footage being viewed on screen.(A new screen that is recording the footage will appear displaying your images at a slower frame rate!!!)

Press Capture Now to save the footage being viewed on screen.(A new screen that is recording the footage will appear displaying your images at a slower frame rate!!!)

Press Esc to exit capture screen or press stop on the VTR of your camera.  Continue with this process to capture the remaining clips that you would like to edit with. After your clips are captured, go to the bin where your files will now appear as segments.

and drag and drop the segments/clips that you just saved onto the timeline…

and enjoy editing the movies :)

Anthony McCann reading I Was Alive, an erasure poem based on the text of Frankenstein.

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