Since we'd filmed in HD, we found we needed to convert the footage into a format Final Cut Pro was compatible with, and that meant PRO-RES. This amazingly converted 25GB of footage into 100GB footage, so it was a good job I had a 1TB hard drive we could work from (this actually made it loads easier because we didn't have to stick to one computer). After the 2 hours it took for the new footage to transfer to the hard drive, I could get started on the first step.
Charlotte had already looked over the footage and picked out the parts she wanted (she was an amazing director, by the way, I might buy her a bottle of wine) so all I had to do was follow her list, and scrub through to find the parts we wanted. After around an hour we had an intro for our documentary completely finished.
On the second day we had a setback: we thought Alice had synced up the sound for the interview we wanted to edit, but it turns out she had yet to start it. As soon as she had finished it was on with the edit, and we managed to create a rough cut of Sophie's interview by the end of the day.
The third day was spent neatening up Sophie's interview, and editing Pat's (from the tourist centre). However just as we finished Pat's, Final Cut crashed and deleted all trace that it had ever existed. I may have said some rude words at this point.
Just to prove Charlotte is an amazing director, by the time I came in the next morning, she had cut together a rough edit of what we had lost the night before (although maybe she was just scared of me getting angry again). I then created a transitional sequence between the introduction and our first interview, setting the scene with cutaways of Liverpool and generally aesthetically pleasing shots. I even cut it in time to the music Grace composed for us, and I'm very pleased with it (although I couldn't have done it without George's beautiful camerawork).
The last thing we did was create transitions between different sections of the film, which was probably the hardest part and where most of the debate ended up being. I think at points we became exasperated with each other but generally I would say we worked well as a group and supported each other. I personally really enjoyed working within the dynamics of this group.
Exporting didn't turn out to be much fun: the first time we ended up with gain on our video, the second time it was in 4:6, etc etc. We reached the best copy on around number 6, which seems daft, I will have to learn more about the export process so I don't fluff it up next time.
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