This is the browser window on the Final Cut software. It is where all of the clips and sounds that I filmed go. As you can see above, there is the soundtrack which I used, Paramore - Emergency. I got this soundtrack from www.zamzar.com. I had lots of footage to get through, and a few selections of footage which I used are in the browser box above. It was simple to put the parts of footage into my piece, all I had to do was choose the clips that I wanted and drag them down to the timeline.
The timeline is made up of layers, the two bottom green strips are where my soundtrack is. I used one of the tools at the bottom left to add the wavelengths onto the strips so that it was easier for me to sync it with the video. The two small red markers show the start of the singing in the song, so that I knew where to start the footage of that particular bit. You can lock each layer whilst editing another strip, by using the padlock tool at the beginning, to the left of each layer. Also you can mute each layer so that you can focus on just one sound part at a time which I found useful when i was using the razor tool to split the video layer.
This is the first window where I selected the particular parts of each clip which I wanted to use, I could pick them out by using the in and out markers, which are the two small blue points. Then I just had to drag the selected footage to the timeline. Here, I could also change the motion of the footage whether that be distort, crop, rotation, blur and opacity.
This is the second window where the footage from the timeline is played. I found that here I could also play my footage in slow motion so that I could find any problems with my footage easily enough.
I think that experimenting with Final Cut now, I have gained an advantage when it comes to editing my real music video, as I now have a feel and a better understanding of the software.
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