Final Cut Pro Lesson 2...

So we had our second Final Cut Pro lesson today, which was about learning to use the effects and transitions, as well as using keyframes. I found this lesson quite interesting because the a lot of the effects and transitions where the same as in Premiere Pro and i enjoyed getting back into the editing process. After a tutorial from Mark, we were given the task of editing a sequence together using video transition, filters and keyframes. This was a fairly sim ple exercise, although it was made longer because we had to match it to the sequence Mark ha edited, which was being played on a loop on the board. Also, we had to try and find each transition and filter from the huge list there is. We got there eventually and although the sequence looked amazingly cheesy and tacky, i was glad to find that everything was similar to Premiere Pro. It still reminds me of the first time i used Premiere Pro at college, with the constant use of zooms and cheesy effects, and i was kind of hoping i'd never see the day of "powerpoint style" transitions again...