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Friday, September 17, 2010

TGIF!

Several things to cover today:

1. Download new footage to FCE. Transfer into the same PROJECT, but make a new SEQUENCE on the timeline.

2. Meet with your "Director's Chair" partner and complete the permission form.

3. Football students can edit the 1st game footage; Balloon Team, see me!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

And now, for something completely different....

We're taking a break from the Final Cut Mind-Grind today to cover a few topics of interest, and get outta the house for awhile!

1. Albuquerque Aloft---Balloon Fiesta, The Movie!
2. Ms. T is legit---DukeCityShootout.org
3. FX on $0 per day
4. Director's Chair: Who's next?
5. Burning down the Firewall: Vimeo.com


Sunday, September 12, 2010

4 Basic FCE Functions: Superimposing Video Layers, Cropping, Adding Filters & Adding Titles

Grab your folder and get ready to take notes and dive deeper into Final Cut Express! The last series of our introductory tutorials will cover 4 useful functions in FCE. By the end of class, you must complete the following in your sequence, for a 4-point grade:

1. Superimposing Video Layers--create a "Picture-in-Picture" effect using a second Video layer.
2. Cropping--radically crop a clip in your sequence.
3. Adding filters--add an easily visible filter to a different clip in your sequence.
4. Adding titles--create a "World View Redux" title on the first clip in your sequence.

Note: Each of these 4 functions should be applied to DIFFERENT clips, to make each one easily visible and distinguishable on your sequence. DO NOT double up effects on the same clip!!!