In my group, we have started editing the footage we currently have. Compared to the software Windows Movie Maker, we found that Final Cut Pro was more complicated to use, however it did contain more characteristics in terms of visual effects etc. which makes it more useful than Windows Movie Maker.
We have managed to log, render and order our current footage and add a few visual effects to it.
One example would be fading the selected footage to black. We used this technique on our bottle's point of view shot. In order to fade to black, we had to point out which part we would want the fade to black effect to start and end. These are symbolised by the dots placed within the 'opacity' section in relation to the timeline above (shown in the second image). Using these two dots, we are able to control the speed of visual effect using the middle dot.
Final Cut Pro allows the user to take control of every aspect it can operate so the footage would be more to the user's liking.
I would say that Final Cut Pro is more user friendly in terms of its features and techniques available to the consumer than Windows Movie Maker.
For the last scene, we had to change the beightness and contrast to make the shot more darker. This is because we found that the shot was too clean and so we changed the tint colour and hue and saturation to get this result.
