Intro to Editing

In today's lesson we worked in the editing studio and learnt how to use an editing programme called ‘Adobe Premiere Pro.'
We were first taught about the layout of the programme . We learnt that folders which you put your edited work in are called 'bins'. Also, unedited footage is called 'rushes’. This is because at the end of the day the unedited footage would be rushed off to be reviewed, edited etc. 
Matt told us that in order to shorten or lengthen a clip you should place the mouse on the edge of the clip, where the 'trim handle' is. 
To chop the clip in half - which will separate one bit of footage into different parts - you can either use the 'razor' from the tool bar on the side, or as a shortcut you can just press the key 'C' on the keyboard. There are various other shortcuts, including pressing 'V' in order to get your cursor to go back to the normal arrow.

Matt reminded us to continually press 'save' on our work because apple macs tend to crash when using editing software.

 The information that we learnt this lesson will help us when editing our preliminary task next week as it has given us the skills to put together an effective sequence. 





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