After we finished our final film shoot we gathered all the footage we had and processed/rendered it on final cut. We sorted through most of the outtakes and deleted them and then arranged all our essential shots onto the timeline in order. We used the blade tool and timeline to arrange all our shots in the order we wanted. We then formatted our footage so it was in a ratio that fit the screen without stretching or decreasing the quality of our footage.
We decided the best way to approach editing all the footage was to build the timeline up first by using a good take from each scene so it would be easier to format the scenes later if we wanted a different take for a particular scene. We did this by swapping out the shot we didn't want with the preferred shot from the library. After this we combined the shots from each film shoot and we were ready to edit the project.
Once everything was in place it was time to stabilise, add filters, crop and render shots. We had to stabilise shots in some shots when the camera is in motion the frames became skewed or rippled. In addition there was 2 shots were the camera jittered and instead of removing these shots altogether we were able to salvage them by stabilising them using the ken burns feature and the stablize feature on final cut. We discovered it worked by analysing the dominant camera motion of the scene and smoothing out the frames where the fragmented movement is. This was a much better feature than the one we used for last years project 'Elegy for April' where we just took individual frames and cropped/rotated them so the camera mistakes where hidden. On final cut there were also sliders we could use to tweak how much motion correction we wanted for the shot. This was useful as some shots needed more correction than others and this feature allowed us to have minor correction on small motion errors and larger correction for more serious errors.
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