T3: Continuity Exercise

1. Tape Logging
Tape logging involved capturing the clips that were on the camera and uploading them onto final cut. I did this by getting the camera and plugging it to the iMac, after I did this I waited to find the name of the camera on there and clicked on it. When this was done I captured the video and pressed space when  I was finished cutting the scenes that I want and when the clips are cut and divided in different sections they are put in the 'keep fit in dance' section like shown below. When the clips go through to this box you can drag any of them into the lines at the bottom to make the clip.

2. Edit decision lists
Edit decision list was used to decide who was doing what in the tasks asked. This was decided easily because there were just four topic scenes we had to film so Carina and myself decided to split it in two sections. Carina did the beginning and I did the ending.

3. Uploading the footage
When uploading the footage to my blog I went onto my YouTube account and searched for my video, I found it by typing the name "Continuity Exercise Animatic. After this all the results with this title came up and I picked the one that said "By Yvonne Kameni" next to the video. After this i clicked on the video and scrolled down and clicked on the "share" column and then pressed embed, after pressing this a link of the video comes at the bottom of the screen in the link box. I then copied the link below and pasted it to my blog

4. Organising/labelling clips in bins
My clips were labelled in the bin. I labelled them so that it would be easier to find some clips and so that if I do not want to use a clip I label it as "don't use".

5. Using a range of editing tools e.g. cropping, transitions, layering
while I was editing my film I used a range of editing tools which involved cropping and adding transitions between the shots, that way it would blend into the next shot.

6. Audio mixing
In my continuity exercise there was no audio mixing needed because it was a continuity exercise and all the sound we recorded were used as there were conversations in certain parts of it.

7. Uploading to YouTube

When uploading to YouTube I made a YouTube account and I clicked on the upload video clip and then a box at the bottom came up, I then renamed the video posted it on top YouTube. To make sure that my video was uploaded I refreshed the YouTube page and typed in the name of my video to see if it would come up and work and it did.

Below are the steps you need to upload from Final cut Express to Youtube 

1. Make sure that the work is completed and saved.

2. File - Export - Using Quick Time Conversion

3. Click "options"

4. Change the following settings 

Video Settings 

Settings

- Compressor Type > MPEG4 > Video

- Key Frames > Automatic 

- Compressor > Medium 

- Date Rate > Limited to 600 

5. Click "Ok" 

Size setting 

Compressor Native > (choose from downdrop menu) 320 x 240 QVGA 

6. Click "OK" 

Sound Settings 

Sound format > AAC

Channels > Mono 

7. Click "Ok" then "Ok" 

8. Name the file something you will recognise 

9. Save 

8. Uploading to BLOG!!
When uploading to my blog I copy the link from YouTube and click on the "HTML" button at the top left corner of the page. I then scroll down on the page to where I want to put the video and paste the video by right clicking the mouse and clicking paste, 3 rows down.