PE2_Final Cut 7

For the second part of my Final Cut tutorials, I learned advanced editing techniques including the slip and slide tools, how to set your keyboard shortcuts, color coordinating your clips, changing the way you see your timeline, adjusting audio, and editing to smooth transitions through the footage.  The slip and slide tools allow you to edit clips already placed in your timeline.  The slip tool allows you to adjust the start and stop points of a clip.  Because Final Cut allows you to trim your footage but is not destructive, you can change the footage within a time frame without changing the length of your video clip. This is useful for editing out undesired parts of a clip.  The slide tool allows you to add footage to a clip.  This tool also changes the length of the final video.  The keyboard in Final Cut is completely adjustable.  You can change what keys are assigned shortcuts to fit your preferences.  Any shortcuts you assign appear in the menus next to the command.  The color and image size of the clips in the timeline can be adjusted to aid in organizing your work.  The audio can be separated from the video clip so that you can add other video images while keeping the main audio track.  The tutorial stressed using breaks or adjusting transitions to hide awkward video footage such as some one saying, “um.”  These areas can be smoothed over through changing the scene, adjusting the audio, or using a transition to hide the breaks and create separate scenes.  Tomorrow, I will finish the tutorials and begin creating my commercial.