For anybody who has edited video in Final Cut Pro, you know that there are many different ways to perform the same tasks. Recently I watched this free Apple seminar on how to rapidly edit news and sports packages. This tutorial is geared primarily for TV shooters and editors transitioning from tape-tape and into the world of non-linear editing. The video seminar is taught by long-time TV news shooter and editor Joe Torelli, who really knows his stuff.
I found the most useful information comes in the second video where Torelli shows an interesting way to edit clips on the timeline verses setting in and out points in the viewer. His techniques, geared for deadline productions, are something I will try when I need to edit something in a hurry. As newspaper websites use more and more video, learning to edit efficiently will only become more important.
5 Comments
August 21, 2008 at 8:37 pm
[...] Mulvany over at Mastering Multimedia links to what looks like a great Apple tutorial on editing news and sports footage. It’s [...]
August 22, 2008 at 7:01 am
[...] Free Video editing tutorial [...]
August 22, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Sounds interesting. Unfortunately your link leads to a login page with no instructions as to how to register.
August 22, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Looks like something happened to the link. I found a new one– should be working now.
September 25, 2008 at 4:18 am
[...] Colin Mulvany found a cool FCP tutorial on the Apple site. It’s free! [...]