Editing Lesson Blog

To begin your editing process first login to your computer. After logging into your computer you must look for the Pinnacle Studios icon. The (PS) icon is were you editing your film or footage you must make sure you use the same computer when editing. Insert your SD card into your SD card reader and put the reader into the computer. To Find your film or footage look inside of the (DCIM) tab. If you can't find your film or footage in the (DCIM) click on the Private option and click on (AVCHD) then select stream; this is were all you film and data is stored at. Once you've done these steps you highlight your work and drag it into your desktop folder. These process is could Dumping; moveing your footage from you camera to your computer.
You when first log into your Pinnacle Studios you will get popups. To make sure you don't get them again just click the dont show me again option. To Import your film from the computer is easy as going to the bathroom. First you must click on the plus sign icon in (PS) and go to you folder and your media will be there. You must remember that every time you film you must import all of your film. Secondly go to the Edit icon which has your raw footage; all your untouched film. In Edit you'll see three tracks are lisred at the bottom of the screen. Titles are put onto Track one, on Track two you can find your footage, and on Track three is your media's sound is found. All of these steps or apart of the Importing process.
When editing you must load your footage. When you see a orange-yellow bar on your tracks that means your footage is loading. Do not mess with the footage when loading you could crash the computer. The Razor icon is used to cut a clip of your film. To cut the clip all you do is highlight the clip and select delete. When your completely done with you project you must export it. You export your media to Studio exporter and make sure you select the MP4 option. Also make sure that you film is in full size best quality.