Friday 20th November, the final edit was made.

The soundtrack was also inserted. The problems we had were:

Background hum - There was often ambient, airy noise in the background, and when scenes changed, the audio also changed. Under the effects tab there is an audio effect titled "hum remover". This effect helped remove some of this.

Audio Rendering problems - All the audio that was imported would not render. Under the Final cut preferences tab.

Audio Censorship  - There is 2 scenes where an interviewee swears, and this goes against our demographic, so it needed to censored. There is a tone generator in final cut pro. I used this, timing it with the audio, and making keyfeames, inserted this tone at the appropriate timing.

In hindsight, the edit was successful, but more time would have allowed better color correction, better audio mastering and a stronger overall outcome.

On the Wednesday of this week, I transferred the footage off the camera and began editing some of the establishing shots together to form the opening sequence. I discovered a few problems whilst editing such as;

Conflicting aspect ratio's - We used two different cameras to film 2 different scenes. The problem was that the second camera we used captured footage in a smaller aspect ratio than the previously edited footage. Pete informed me that it was possible to stretch the entire amount of footage by placing it on a separate video track, then applying the rescale effect to that entire track. We would loose some of the resolution but not too much to downgrade the quality of the footage. I intend to do this.

Rendering time - As the footage was from an external source, every time we imported a clip to edit, it would need rendering. This process was very time consuming. Pete again informed me that we could solve this problem by placing all the footage in a new sequence, then rendering the sequence, then exporting it as a .mov file, for easier and more convenient use later.

Colour balance - in certain shots the blacks were either too low, or the sun rays / glare interfered with the shot. I intend to apply colour correction, using apple colours. I researched some videos concerning colour correction which are available here

During editing, on various occasions i discussed the editing direction with the director. We agreed that for the intro sequence,and opening sequence, which would be voiced over, short quick precise cuts were the most effective, and will continue to discuss the editing direction as i continue to edit.