Editing

     Today I had a very productive class in which I learnt how to assemble a camera and edit footage. To begin, let’s talk about how to set up the cameras that my group and I will be using throughout the year. Because we are using a class set we have to sign a paper ever time we get a camera. Other rules about the class cameras that have is that we can only take a camera for a day, you have to sign out a SD card importer, and you have to wear your school ID and the media studies every time you want to film at school during school hours. That’s because of the school shootings that we have had in recent times. They are the rules for taking out a school camera and although there are a lot of rules they are important because if not followed the camera will be taken away from us.
     Now, moving on to a topic that is more fun, how to set up a camera and all the other gadgets that come with it. The procedures to put the camera on the tri-pod are simple, there is a silver button on the tripod that you take off and with it comes a little clack board. You have to attach that to the camera and screw it in so that the camera does not shake while you are filming. After that you connect it back to the tri-pod. Now, moving on to the tri-pod itself. It is a new tri-pod so my teacher does not know all the shortcuts to it like the older model but she still taught us the basics such as expanding and collapsing it. My teacher then taught us how to put the SD card into the camera and when done recording, putting the SD card into the SD card reader.
     This leads us to the most important part of all, editing. After you put the SD card reader into the computer and dump all of the information onto a computer you then have to edit. In my school the editing platform that we use is Pinnacle Studio. My teacher explained to us that is a great platform but you need to give it patience. That is because if you click to many buttons while it loading is then the platform will crash and you will have to wait longer to restart the computer and start up the platform again. We also learnt how to edit music and add titles to our film. Overall, we learnt a lot this class and it was very productive.