Editing Process

To create our trailer we used premier pro cs4 which is an editing software programme. We used this to upload our footage on to create our finished product. To import the clips we had to insert the camera USB lead and convert the movie clips to BDMV this is so premier pro could read the files.

Once we imported then they came in the project section where all the clips go waiting to be edited and put into action. This is shown below. To get the clips from this section to the movie time line, all you have to do is drag the clip on to the time line and place it where you want it to be.

Below I will be showing you all the main buttons etc we used to make the film trailer. I will show print screens and write about which is what and what we used it for.

- We used these effects which are the main effects you can use in premiere pro. This is both audio effects such as fade in and fade out. And also video effects such as cross fade and cross dissolve. We used these to make the clips look more classier by showing a fade for example. To use them all you have to do is click on the icon you want for example video effects. You would choose which one you want and you drag the name into the clip you want the effect on. This is very simple.

- This is the toolbar where most of the editing is done. This is where the main bits to edit the film trailer we made. On the tool bar there are many different buttons which do many functions but the two main buttons I used were the top button which is the arrow and the 6th button down which is the cut tool. The top button is the select button and i did a lot of this is creating the movie trailer as you needed this button so that you could cut, move and delete the clip. The 6th clip was the cut button this was used a lot as on every clip we did not use the full footage from that clip so we used the cut tool to delete little bits to the clips.

-This is the zoom bar this was a key part to my editing as I used this to help me cut the right bit without loosing audio or video effects also this would help me as i could zoom in more to get a better view of what i need to cut or add an effect to.

-This is one of the problems I had as when i would move a clip into the time line and play it, it would not be to its full size, I struggled to find this as I couldn't find the problem to sort this out with.

- After I asked my teacher I managed to sort this out and this was by clicking the select button, then I would be able to drag the margins to make it to the full screen.

-This is what premier pro looked like when I edited the trailer. I found this hard to work out at first but i managed to work out how to edit a movie as I was experimenting and trying different ideas to get used to this. The more I would use this I would get the hang of it more and by the time I had finished i feel i learnt a lot over the due course.