Editing Blog

Today we learned how to edit our footage film on Pinnacle Studios. We learned about key vocabulary words like dumping, import, export, and rendering. Dumping is the process where you take all the footage from the camera or SD card and put it in your profile folder on the desktop. You do this because to be on the safe side just in case you lose the footage in your SD card it will all be saved on your desktop. In the files under DCIM will be all your pictures you took for that day. If any of it was to be lost, you can go to “private” click on AVCHD then stream, then all the pictures on the card will be on there.
Now, when you click into Pinnacle Studios a lot of advertisements will pop up but disregard them all by pressing the “X” button. If a video is already there you can just go to the top and click “New Movie” and it will clear everything. You then go to “Edit” to import all your footage from your folder by clicking “import”. After clicking you will the desktop profile where you will click the plus sign to see all your footages. Make sure the videos you will like to attach have a orange check mark by them to indicate that they will be imported. At the end you see the start button to officially begin editing. You will see your raw footage pop up on the screen and then you would have to highlight all of them and drag them to AV2. It’s important that’s it’s in AV2 because that’s reserved for all film. AV1 is where you import any titles and AV3 is where you import any music, sounds, and voiceovers. The detach audio you right click the mouse and click detach sound. By right clicking, you can also speed up the films, slow down the films, and reverse the films. Make sure you click the videos in the order you which you want them to be presented. Also it is VERY important that when you place all your videos in AV2 that you wait for it to fully load or Pinnacle Studios may shut down.
To cut any videos, you go the icon that look like a razed blade which represent split clip. You simply highlight the part or footage you would like to be removed and take it out. To import a Title, there will be a “T” for text that you will click. It will pop out as a title like screen where you can type anything you and and place it in AV1. The editing always allows you to do cool transitions, lighting, and effects. To export means your saving it and taking it out of pinnacle. Rendering it makes it smooth and takes out all the gaps. Minimize it and make sure your actually save it in your file before you close out of Pinnacle Studios. Whoever profile you are under when you edit is the person profile that has to log into EVERYDAY !!