Mediaworks - Final Cut Found Footage

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Creating a Final Cut Project

Final Cut needs to have a Scratch Disk set every time it is opened. The Scratch Disk is s global setting in Final Cut. It is not set for each project. When switching between projects remember to change the Scratch Disk.

Set your Scratch Disk

  1. After opening Final Cut a dialog box will open asking to “Set Your Scratch Disks”.
  2. Click the Set button, browse to your folder in the User Drive and select it.
  3. Click Choose to make it the default location to store all your content.


Changing Sequence Settings

Changing the default sequence setting

  1. Go to the Final Cut Pro menu and select Audio/Video Settings.
  2. For the Sequence Preset setting select DV NTSC 48kHz and click OK.
  3. Any sequences made after this change will have the proper setting.


Changing an existing sequence

  1. Click in the Timeline of the sequence that needs to be changed.
  2. Go to Sequence > Settings.
  3. Click Load Sequence Preset in the lower left corn

For more info see Scratch Disk - FCP

Final Cut Pro Editing

Adjusting Audio Levels

The levels of audio clips can be adjusted in the Timeline.

Creating Keyframes
  1. Click the Toggle Clip Overlays button in the lower left of the Timeline window (it looks like a mountain).
  2. Select the Pen Tool in the tool bar (press the P key on the keyboard.)
  3. Click on the pink line on top off the waveform to create a Keyframe.
  4. Click and drag to create a Keyframe and change the levels.
Adjusting Keyframes
  1. To adjust Keyframes select the Selection Tool (press the A key on the keyboard.)
  2. Click on the Keyframes to adjust the levels ( up or down) or the place in time (left or right).

Opacity Levels

The opacity of a clip can be adjusted similar to they audio levels are adjusted.

Creating Keyframes
  1. Click the Toggle Clip Overlays button in the lower left of the Timeline window (it looks like a mountain).
  2. Select the Pen Tool in the tool bar (press the P key on the keyboard.)
  3. Click on the black line on top off the video to create a Keyframe.
  4. Click and drag to create a Keyframe and change the levels.
Adjusting Keyframes
  1. To adjust Keyframes select the Selection Tool (press the A key on the keyboard.)
  2. Click on the Keyframes to adjust the levels ( up or down) or the place in time (left or right).

Downloading From Youtube

Youtube Downloading

Downloading from the Internet

Archive.org is a source for found footage. Download the highest resolution mp4 file and then use a Droplet to convert it to DV NTSC.

Capturing form VHS/DVD

  • The 4 MML stations closest to the door have S-video and audio cables that are connected to the DV deck. A VCR or DVD player can be connected as needed.
  • The other 8 main MML stations have VCR's connected to the DV decks.
  • The Teaching Station has a DVD player connected to the DV deck.
  • Jeunet has a VCR and DVD player connected to a video convertor.


Capturing VHS to Quicktime

Capturing VHS/DVD on Jeunet

Screen Recording

On MML-Jeuet their is an application called Screenflow is for recording the computer screen in real time. This can be used to record videos which are available on line as streams but not for downloading

Quicktime Editing

You can edit your video files in Quicktime to get smaller clips from a longer file.

  1. Open the video file in QuickTime Player 7.
  2. Set the playhead to the where you want the in-point and press the "i" key.
  3. Set the playhead to the where you want the out-point and press the "o" key.
  4. Go to Edit > Copy.
  5. Go to File > New Player.
  6. Go tot Edit > Paste.
  7. Go to File > Save As and a dialogue window will open. Choose "Save as Self-Contained Movie" and choose a location to save the file.


Quicktime Editing

Droplets

Droplets are an easy way to use Compressor presets without opening Compressor. In the right side of the dock there is a folder with a red D icon which contains a variety of droplets.


  1. Open the droplet you need to use.
  2. Drag your source files to the Source Files well in the droplet window.
  3. The default destination for the new files is the current location of the source files. Click Choose to select a different location.
  4. Click Submit to convert the files.
  5. Open Batch Monitor to monitor the progress of the conversion. In the Dock click on the Application Aliases folder and go to Media Utilities > Batch Monitor.


For a DV timeline in Final Cut use the DV NTSC droplet if your source footage is 4x3. If your source footage is not 4x3 such as 16x9 the DV NTSC droplet will make the image look "squished". The DV NTSC 4x3 droplet will crop the image to make it 4x3.