Making a movie from two clips

Making a movie from two clips• Start a new project in Final Cut Express

Making a movie from two clips• The panels for the new project

Making a movie from two clips• Find a still image for the first clip

Making a movie from two clips• Looking for a still image for the first clip

Making a movie from two clips• Looking for a still image for the first clip

Making a movie from two clips• Selecting a still image for the first clip

Making a movie from two clips• The first 10-second clip in the Viewer panel

Making a movie from two clips• The first 10-second clip in the browser panel

Making a movie from two clips• Selecting a still image for the second clip

Making a movie from two clips• Both clips in the browser panel

Making a movie from two clips• The first clip in the timeline panel

Making a movie from two clips• Dragging the second clip into the timeline panel

Making a movie from two clips• Still dragging the second clip into the timeline panel

Making a movie from two clips• Dropping the second clip into the timeline panel

Making a movie from two clips• Both clips are the timeline panel

Making a movie from two clips• Export the sequence as a QuickTime movie

Making a movie from two clips• Saving it as mySecondMovie.mov on the desktop

Making a movie from two clips• Hiding the Final Cut panels, so we can see the desktop

Making a movie from two clips• Selecting mySecondMovie.mov

Playing the two-clip movie• Opening mySecondMovie.mov

Playing the two-clip movie• mySecondMovie.mov is ready to start

Playing the two-clip movie• 7 seconds into mySecondMovie.mov we still see the first image

Playing the two-clip movie• By 12 seconds seconds into the movie, we see the second image

Saving this project• Let's save this project, in case we need it again in the future

Saving this project• Save it in the projects folder we created earlier

The saved project• Here is the project file in a Finder window

• It is quite small, only 16 KB

Project files• A project file can be quite small because it does not

contain copies of the assets (clips or still images) used in the project

• Instead, it contains– the location, on the hard drive, of the assets used– the video and audio trims/edits that have been made – the order and manner of playback of all tracks in the

sequence timeline– any effects/filters and transitions used

Discarding the two-clip movie• Since we have saved the project, we can always regenerate the QuickTime movie again in the future

• So, save space by putting this second .mov file in the trash-can too

Now for an exercise

• Tackle Exercise 3http://www.cs.ucc.ie/j.bowen/cs2508/exercises/exercise03/