Editing Process

Firstly, I go on the top toolbar and select the 'add media button'. This is a fairly simple stage as all the material I need is all together in one folder so I then select them all, for them all to appear in a list in the left hand side column. From this it is easy to edit. I then drag all the clips I need into the 'Video Track' column and this shows all I need in a row. I then go on to edit these in the next stage.

At this stage I am using the left hand side column once again to use the tool 'split' in which cuts all of the part of the clips that I don't need and automatically deletes these. This took about 15 minutes to complete the video section of the editing process and it was fairly simple to make these clips blend together using the next stage.

 I then use the tool about the split key which says 'transition' and at the end of each clip I have used transititions such as fade and cross cut. From this the trailer was then almost complete and all I needed to do was add the soundtrack, intertitles and the voice-over which would be quite simple to do. I decided that the next stage I would do was to add the intertitles and the process is shown below:

Stage one two add intertitles is to go to the top of the page and click 'insert blank' this then adds a black screen and allows you to say how long the screen is to be on for and what you want to put on this screen. Next, you have to click on the row above the video track which is called 'the overlay' so that you can insert the text that you need to put on the intertitles, it then allows you to change the font and colour of it if necessary.

This stage shows the text being inserted and now all I have to do is change the font to white and to the 'roadway' style and then repeat this full process as many times as needed in order to make the trailer professional.

To add the soundtrack it is fairly simple. The process is shown below:

Due to all the media already being added this stage only takes one step. To place the soundtrack into the trailer all that was needed is to drag the soundtrack down from the media list onto the soundtrack 1 section of the software. This then edits it itself and fits to the trailer automatically so know edits are needed at this stage.

The soundtrack being added is fairly straight-forward and it is done by clicking the narrative button on the top of the page and it then simply records it and place itself on the soundtrack 2 section automatically and then it can just be dragged to whereever it is meant to be. The process is shown below:

This shows the voiceover being recorded and by clicking ok it then automatically adds itself into the trailer so that it can be dragged into where it is needed to go.

The trailer from here is now complete.