Hello all!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been learning about how to film and edit videos. I have been using a program called Final Cut Pro, editing software that is native to Apple products. The software is extremely easy to learn, and has many more features than iMovie, which was popular before Final Cut came out.  I hadn’t used any of the software since iMovie, and found Final Cut much more accurate and polished. One of the most amazing changes was in how detailed the editing of the clips can get. I practiced cutting and looking for pauses in speech earlier this week, and was not disappointed with how easy it was to find the small nuances in speech to cut parts of it out. Another amazing change from earlier versions was the effects system. Now the editing software is able to go in and add other moving pictures onto the screen, and layer other movie clips on top of the first one. While these seem normal today, as many of these effects go into the common video, these actually require skill to be able to use effectively. As I continue to use it I hope to unlock more of its capabilities and hopefully manage to create some awesome videos that will be able to show all of the amazing projects that the SIFs are working on.