Editing Practical

In this assignment, I will use screenshots I have taken to explain the editing process that I went through to achieve my completed short film.

The first stage of the editing process, after transferring the clips from the camera onto the computer's D drive via  a USB connector, was to "ingest" the clips into Adobe Prelude. This piece of software ensures that no clips are corrupted and eliminates any problems with broken clips when editing in the later stages.

Once I had opened Adobe Prelude, I clicked the ingest button in the top left hand corner, which opened another window. In this window, it gave me the option to select all of the clips I needed to edit.

Once my appropriate clip was selected, I clicked a second button which also reads "ingest", located in the bottom right of the window shown above. Once the clip is ingested this means that the clip is ready to be used with Adobe Premiere Pro, the software I used to edit my short film. The ingested clip is shown below, and you can import it directly into Premiere Pro by right clicking on the clip and selecting "send to Premiere Pro".

Once my clips were successfully imported, I had to create an appropriate timeline for use when editing. By default, clips are shown in a "bin", which is in the bottom left corner of Premiere Pro.

By clicking the button which I have circled and selecting sequence, Premiere Pro creates a timeline which can now be used for editing your clips. Another way to do this is to drag one of your clips to the same button. This way, the clip that you dragged will appear on the timeline and also, the playback screen will be the same size as your clips.

Above is a picture of my project's timeline. Any audio which has been added is shown below the clips in green. The long green bar at the bottom is the constant sound of running water that I used for my short film and the shorter green bars are the various sound effects I used. Audio clips can be imported by selecting "import" from the file menu in Premiere Pro. I added titles by clicking the same button I circled above and selecting "title" from the drop down menu which appears.

I decided that my film was going to be black and white from the beginning stages of the film making. To achieve this, a black and white filter was needed to add over all of the clips. Fortunately, the Premiere Pro software incorperates all sorts of different effects at the ready for anyone to add into their projects. I simply typed 'Black & White' into the effects search bar and then dragged it onto the required clips in my timeline. For some of my clips I wasn't entirely happy with what the filter gave, so I had to increase or decrease the brightness in the clip, depending on the look I was going for.

For this clip, towards the end of my short film, I altered the brightness to give an ultimately darker feeling and gain some stronger emotions from the viewers.








This is the brightness control pannel, which was used to alter how effective each of the individual effects that I added were.

And finally, to export, I went to the 'file' menu and then down to where it said 'export'. I clicked here and then another window came up showing all of the different options. The option that I chose are shown in this screenshot I took at the time of exporting.

Here is my final edited film.