Dive Into Your Imagination

This week I'm going to cover importing external files. These would include music, photos, graphics and even video. These are the types of files you will want to bring in to embellish your video with, and knowing how to do it will definitely get you excited about editing.

This week I will quickly cover the pen tool. Final Cut is not a drawing program, so what on earth does it need a pen tool for? Well believe it or not, the pen tool is going to be your best friend when you deal with keyframes and audio. Yes, you will be able to raise and lower levels with ease. This kind of tool is often useful for perfecting the harmony between narration and music.

Hi again. Well today's entry about editing focuses on the story of Jon. Who? A California father of two very, very lucky kids. He has turned them into the youngest underwater photographers in the world! Well I don't know if that's true. But, how? When? Where? These are the question's every storyteller must answer, and editing can help us!

Hi this is J of the Dive Into Your Imagination team, and I will be giving some tips on digital video editing. One of my latest editing projects was to create a 30 second commercial for each of our DVD's. This was a quick and easy thing to do simply because of the nature of the audio track. It practically edits itself! Yes audio is an editors best friend. If you haven't already noticed, sound is the life-force of moving pictures. Try watching horror film with the sound off. It just isn't the same.

The main audio track in this commercial for the Visions of the Sea DVD is of Annie highlighting it's content. You know when you read the back of a DVD to see what its about? That's basically what she's doing in this. Annie's audio helped me determine what I needed in order to get my timeline going.

BINNING IS EVERYTHING!

I would love to know your "how I do it" for organizing and storing footage - what your workflow is to bring new material in, how you tag or ID clips for later retrieval, when & how you delete the trash, etc.