Choice of Editing Software

In order to make a film, we had to use editing software that would trim out all unnecessary shots, retain  continuity and let the film flow. Also, we needed to include credits and insert a few effects. We were given a choice between two different programs to edit our footage and had to come to a final decision. We judged this on both program's capabilities and limitations.

Sony Vegas Pro

The above picture is the user interface for Sony Vegas Pro. As you can see, there are many features you can use to edit your footage. However, both of us never had any real experience in editing videos before so all of this on a screen looked quite daunting. We decided not to use Sony Vegas Pro as it looked very complex and complicated despite having more capablities than our other option, iMovie.

iMovie



The above picture is the user interface for Sony Vegas Pro. As you can see, there are slightly fewer feeatures compared to Sony Vegas Pro. However, there were digital manuals which helped us learn about all the different editing techniques so we were able to use this when editing our film. Apart from that, other general features were quite self-explanatory as iMovie is designed to be user friendly and makes it clear to the user what each function does.

In the end we decided to use iMovie just because of its simplicity. Even though we were slightly limited in the range of editing techniques, there were still more than enough for our film to be completed up to a high standard.