Video Capture and Editing Techniques

This unit develops hands-on skills for capturing, assembling, and refining video content using consumer editing tools (Filmora, HitFilm Express) and platform-specific capture workflows for consoles and computers. Students will move from raw footage and gameplay capture to creating cohesive rough cuts with transitions, titles, jump cuts, and voiceovers, preparing projects for final polishing and publishing in the next unit.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze raw footage and gameplay captures to select best takes and identify continuity, audio, and visual issues for inclusion in a 3–8 minute YouTube-style rough cut
• Apply platform-specific capture procedures to record and import video sources from a webcam, PS4, Xbox One, and PC/Mac into Filmora and HitFilm Express
• Demonstrate timeline-based editing skills in Filmora and HitFilm Express, including adding clips to a timeline, trimming, creating jump cuts, inserting transitions, adding titles, and recording/importing voiceovers
• Evaluate edited rough cuts against criteria for pacing, continuity, audio clarity, and visual consistency and make iterative edits to prepare files for final export