Editing: Final Cut Pro

The majority of the time editing was spent on cutting and chronologically ordering the shots of our thriller. First we uploaded all of our takes from shoot day onto Final cut pro via final cut server, we did this so that we could use any computer in the room to edit and that if the one we were using crashed, we could easily switch over and resume from our last save. The next job was creating or rush and log bins, which was the tediously painstaking task of watching all of the takes and deciding which ones we were going to use and which ones we weren't. Of course, none of those decisions could only be finalised after it had been pieced together into it's final form, so this task lasted almost the duration of the editing process, or close enough. Then came the most difficult part, the sorting and cutting shots into place. This is the reason that shots the log and rush bins were seldom segregated, as it proved too difficult to solely use takes from our log bin in order for our thriller to make sense. Other tasks included converting the film to HD and widescreen format. The widescreen was just a mask on the top and bottom of the frame that wasn't necessary, but looked much more professional.