final cut pro effects

After watching the tutorial on basic editing techniques and how to use it, we were looking more into detail about what effects can be achieved. The main technique we would like to achieve is the "Green Screen" effect through a Polaroid picture to make it go from a still image to a moving one.

On this following video, it didn't have green screen, but it had many other techniques that we thought looked excellent and that we'd like to try out as group on our music video. My personal favourites were "through a brick wall" "gazing out of a window" and "time travel", but all of them looked excellent,however we will only need to use some of them as if the music video h as to many transitions and special effects, it will begin to look more and more like a film rather then a music video!

Final Cut Pro

Now that in our media room our school has provided us with brand new Imac's, we are finally able to have access to the programme of final cut pro. final cut pro is a much more advanced programme then Imovie and a lot of better effects and techniques can be used and achieved in order to produce a better final product (in our case, a music video).

We were then told that out of the 6 brand new Imac's my groups' was the only one to have final cut pro on! we were delighted to hear this as we could get going on it straight away where as the other groups will have to wait a little longer until it is working on their new Imacs.

In order to help us understand how final cut pro works and how to use it etc, we watched the following tutorial video on YouTube to give us the basics and great hints and tips in making our music video look the best it possibly can!