Week Five Reflection

Final Cut Pro is becoming more and more second nature for me. This past week, I opened up Sony Vegas and actually wasn't as comfortable with it as I used to be. Instead, I am becoming more familiar with FCP. In class, the lessons we went through deal mainly with cutting and editing video clips as well as sound. Much of the basics in FCP are similar to the experience I have had with Vegas, and thus came with little to no difficulty. However, I decided to delve into "motion" in FCP. One of the first things I learned with Vegas was to make a Star Wars intro crawl. This was relatively simple to do with Vegas, which is very user friendly, but proved to be more of a challenge with Final Cut Pro. Regardless, I got nearly all of the intro completed, but had some trouble with having the text rotate on it's x-axis without going outside the border of the frame. All in all, FCP is gaining a lot of ground with me and I feel that I might make the complete switch to it in the near future. The only problem is that FCP is for Mac only, and I have Windows!