Learning to Edit

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Getting Into the Editing Suite...

Recently I was finally able to use the editing software and taught the basics. We used a program from Adobe named Premiere Pro, a system that came fairly quickly to me as it's similar to the software I tend to use; Final Cut Pro.

I started things off by learning some basic terminology;

1. The general folders that contain your raw footage are named bins, a name that originates from back when film strips were used and were organised into various sections by containing the rolls in named bins

2. The raw footage collected inside the bins are technically named Rushes or Dailies for Americans. This is also due to how old film strips used to work. Each day the film strips would have to be 'rushed' off in order that the director could watch over the footage from the previous day and work out if anything needed re-filming.

3. In order to extend or shorten a clip easily, you can use the trim handles. For more precision, the +,- symbols can be used for zooming in and out of the timeline.

Finally there are the keyboard shortcuts for the tools that you can use:

Tools
Selection Tool	V
Track Select Tool	A
Ripple Edit Tool	B
Rolling Edit Tool	N
Rate Stretch Tool	R
Razor Tool	C
Slip Tool	Y
Slide Tool	U
Pen Tool	P
Hand Tool	H
Zoom Too	Z