Importing Footage into Final Cut Pro X

 

Today is Thursday, December 31st and today my group and I have begun the importing and post production process for our feature film, 2020 Vision. In the previous blogs I have described to you, the audience, the production process of the film. This included the Day 1 Filming Scenes as well as Day 2 Filming. Day 2 Filming was in fact only completed yesterday, but the results have been spectacular when considering that we only had 2 hours to film. In total on day 1 filming we collected about 10-12 minutes of footage. This is compared to Day 2 of filming in which we collected around 5 minutes of total footage. This difference can be attributed to the use of the iPhone solely, as compared to the drone, the go pros, and our phones. In the previous blogs I described how we dumped the footage. As a basic review, the first step involved  the footage being brought from the camera (the GoPro and Drone to be specific) to computer, also know as dumping. What we had to do was take out the SD card, put it into the SD reader, and plug it into the USB port on our computer. From there we opened the DCIM folder and found the folder containing our footage from a certain time. Then we created a desktop folder on our laptops, making sure to label each individual scene, and it’s significance to the film. A similar, yet significantly different process was used to transfer the IPhone footage. The process involved using Apples specific ability to “AirDrop” footage, without a cellular connection. This made sure the data did not lose quality when being transferred. From there I was able to airdrop my footage from my phone to my computer, since both of my devices are Apple. In total the dumping process took about 20 minutes, but was essential to this blog, which is importing the footage into Final Cut Pro. 

In order to do this. I had to first create a new project. I made sure to name the project "2020 Vision Feature Film," and selected various settings to ensure we got the production quality and product we wanted. From there I went to the top left of my screen, selected "Final Cut Pro X" and viewed the drop down menu. From there I selected the "Import" button. This brought up the Finde tab, and from that I was easily able to locate my "2020 Vision Footage" folder. Then I used the select all command "command + A" and clicked select. This then imported the footage into the tab on the left side of the Final Cut Pro tab (see photo). Finally, I am now able to drag footage from this library of footage onto the time track at the bottom of the tab. This time track is the sequence that the movie will play in real time. Overall, I am very happy with the production and post-production progression we've made on the production film "2020 Vision."