Editing the Video together

Shortly after creating my video i edited it together using Final Cut Pro. Since my media course i did last year i already had experience using Final Cut Pro, so editing the movie together was easy since we used the same techniques as before.


The techniques we used were In and Out tools, as well as using the razor tool. We also did some audio editing and i learned about transitions as well.

The first step was to import all of my clips. I filmed a few more sequences to get a sense of a beginning and an end so overall i had 53 clips. Few of these i did not use as they would take up too much time or did not seem necessary.

When i first started editing i soon realised how long a second really is when creating a video, so achieving 30 edits in 20 seconds would be achievable as i first worried that i would go over the 20 second limit that we had been set.

I found the editing process rather simple as all my clips i had filmed in chronological order so it was a simple case of dragging them and dropping them onto the timeline.

The version of Final Cut Pro i downloaded was FCP X which is a different version to the one i had originally learnt with so i had to adjust to the new interface.

Once i had edited all the video together i needed to edit in some sound effects, a lot of the audio was clear but i thought it would good to emphasise a lot of the actions to add some humour to it.

I went to FreeSFX.com and as it was a royalty free sound effects i could use any one of the effects.

Overall i downloaded 19 sound effects for my video. And using the same techniques as i did last year i simply dragged and dropped them into my timeline and cut them to a suitable length and made them sync with the video.