Editing Technology
Editing the short film is done on Adobe Premier Pro. Premier Pro is an editing program (Software) it can be used to edit a range of things such as; Short Films, Feature Films, Montages and Music Videos. Premier Pro is a great program to use for editing as it has a very organised layout and isn't too confusing to use.
Doing a Short Film edit on Premier Pro starts firstly with capturing the footage you have filmed doing the production process, to get to the capture screen you can either go to File < Capture or press 'F5'.
Once you get onto this screen, using the top box on the right-hand side select where you want the footage to be saved, then in the boxes underneath name the tape and clips. The last thing you do before the edit begins is, make sure the scene detect box is ticked, meaning it will know when to cut each clip.
Once the clips have captured, the next thing to do is organise the clips into bins (folders) this makes it easier to find the necessary clips for each scene.
You create bins in this area of the program, you create a new bin by clicking the folder icon at the bottom of it.
As also seen in the image above, making a short film edit easier instead of working on one sequence create a new sequence for each scene.
Editing Process & Post-Production Tools
Starting the edit process begins with putting the clips into their sequence. Then use the Razor Tool to cut the clips to be edited together in linear and understandable order. Missing In Action is a voiceover-based story which means editing the voiceovers into the sequences.
I edited the voiceovers on in two different ways. The first I ungrouped the scenes that were going to be used in the voiceover, this means I can edit both the visual and audio seperately, to do the voiceover I deleted the audio track and replaced it with the voiceover. The second way was to put the voicover on the sequence and edit the visuals of the needed clips over the voiceover.
After completing all of the scenes, the sequences are saved on the clips window then from there I put them into the master sequence.
After having all of the scenes put into linear order on the master sequence, the offline edit is complete. After this I put on the opening credits, end credits, transitions, music and cinemascope. This makes it an online edit. To create credits/titles you go to Title<New Title then opening credits is <Default Still and end credits are <Default Roll.
After clicking which you want this window will open, it should be automatically set to the standard size of your video so from this just give it a name then click 'OK' after this it comes up with a new window where the title is created.
After creating the titles the music was put into the sequence, the music was the most difficult part of the edit as it was very hard to fit the volume keyframes over the film without it being too loud over the top of the speech's.
Overall Quality of Finished Product
The final cut of the film had both it's ups and downs. The pro's of the film were the credits looked good opening and end. Most of the edits cut together well and the explosion effect looked to standard for a first timer.
The cons of the edit were in some scenes the sound was too up and down due to background noises such as the vehicles in Scene 4. Putting the cinemascope in was an issue for some of the scenes as the shot sizes made it so we had to lose something kind of important in a shot.
Putting the film together as a whole went well as it the film makes sense and nothing in it is too confusing or mis-understandable.
