The document summarizes several editing tools that can be used in video editing software: 1. The "razor blade" tool allows cutting a single clip into two pieces, which can be useful for rearranging clips, deleting sections, or applying effects to only part of a clip. 2. The colour correction tool improves the lighting and colours of clips. It was used to change the white levels and emphasize blue and cyan tones to fit the emotion of a music video. 3. The eight-point garbage matte blur tool generates an eight-point polygon to crop out portions of a clip. Sliders control the polygon shape and blurring of edges to create a blurred background effect.

2. I will be explaining
the main editing
tools that I’ve
learnt how to use.
These are:

3. Cutting Clips:
The ‘razor blade’ tool cuts a clip in
the sequence and splits the clip into
two clips. This is done by cutting a
single clip, along with any clip
linked to it in the Timeline, into two
pieces. This edit point is added at
the frame of the clip item in the
Timeline that you click. This can be
useful for rearranging clips in the
sequence or deleting a section of a
clip, or applying an effect to a
After the razor blade cuts a clip into two
pieces, I was left with a red marker which specific part of a clip, or moving a
notifies me that the clip has been cut. I piece of a clip to another track.
can now rearrange the clips or add
effect in-between.

4. Colour Corrector:
Throughout the music video
we’ve decided to use the
colour correction tool to
improve the colour of the clips.
This tool allows you to improve
the lighting of the clip, but
we’ve decided to change the
‘white’ level and chose to use
the tones of Blue and Cyan,
because these colours
emphasis the coldness and fits
well with the emotion of the
song.
Before After

5. Blurred Background:
The Eight-Point Garbage Matte is a new blur tool that I’ve come across. It generates
into an eight-point polygon, which crops out portions of the clip. The eight-point
control allows me to define the polygon. The Smooth slider rounds off the corners of the
polygon to create rounder mattes. The Choke slider allows you to expand or contract
the matte, and the Feather slider allows you to blur the edges of the matte. The Invert
checkbox reverses what’s matted and what’s transparent, and the Hide Labels
checkbox hides the number labels, which indicate which point of the matte
corresponds to which point control of the filter.