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I finally began editing the video from Mexico that I had kept postponing. I could have used iMovie, but this time I tackled it with Final Cut Express, which I had bought and then never used.

Final Cut Express has a far more difficult user interface than iMovie. At first I understood nothing and felt completely lost, but after consulting Google, watching introductory videos on YouTube seemed the best approach.

This is the one I watched.

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Thanks to it, I finally learned to do basic things such as adding titles and transitions. Unfortunately, editing the soundtrack from within it using Ozone 5 does not seem practical.

Further investigation showed that, unlike iMovie, Final Cut lets you enlarge or zoom, crop, and move parts of a video in various ways.

Final Cut Express カミソリツールI therefore cut the original video to match the music. To make a cut, it is easiest to stop the video at the desired point and click with the razor tool. For each cut, I set the canvas display to Image + Wireframe, grabbed the edge of the wireframe to enlarge the whole image, and edited it so that only the area I wanted appeared on screen.

I think this made it much more enjoyable to watch than a slow, meandering video.

Here is the result.

 

 

Yagi-bushi

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To produce the final YouTube HD video, I used the Elgato turbo.264 HD ELG-US-000003. I recommend it because it makes encoding overwhelmingly faster. Considering the value of your own labor, it pays for itself very quickly.

I only wish this could also be used to render each cut….

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