Name: Tiwani Adelekan Candidate number: 1192

Monday, 26 March 2012

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Editing softwares

iMovie


iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application sold by Apple Inc. for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It was originally released in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Mac model – the iMac DV.Since version 3, iMovie has been a Mac OS X-only application included with the iLife suite of Macintosh applications.
iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras or the computer's USB port. It can also import video and photo files from a hard drive. From there, the user can edit the photos and video clips and add titles, music, and effects, including basic color correction and video enhancement tools and transitions such as fades and slides.
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We used iMovie to edit our thriller due to how easy it is to use and edit effectively. We recorded all our footage and edited our thriller in under a week. However through our editing we found that there was some effects you couldn't do on iMovie we got introduced to Final cut.

Final Cut


Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors. The software allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.
Since the early 2000s, Final Cut Pro has developed a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers. It has, in later years especially, made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer. 
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We used final cut for added sounds and effects on the lighting of our thriller and also making the title sequence move slower because this was something iMovie was not capable of doing. However, to produce the title sequence and news broadcast effect we used Motion.
                                                                                                                           

Motion

Motion is a software application produced by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. It is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects.
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We used motion to do our news broadcast animation and create our title sequence after that we exported the sequence and put it back to iMovie so we could work on sound. We used Garageband to create our own sound.

                                                                                                          

Garageband

GarageBand is a software application for Mac OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on Mac OS X.
                                                                                                                         Sources: Wikipedia

We used Garageband  to create our own sound, it was quiet a difficult software to use but we got the basic right enough to produce sounds for our thriller.