Sunday, March 2, 2008

Playing with Final Cut

While procrastinating writing a paper, I decided to open up my video interview with my coach again and play with Final Cut Pro a bit. I decided to try to add text to the video and I found out it was pretty easy. On the Browser window I clicked on effects, then went into "video generators" and then into "text." I typed in my coach's name and his job title, and put a black background behind it to make it easier to read. I dragged the icon into the window where we put our clips, and it was added into the final video.

I feel adding the text to the movie makes it look a bit more professional and clean. It allows the viewer to see the person's name while they are talking, which is what you typically see on interviews on the news.

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