2. Editing your short film
Today you will be editing your short film. You will do this
individually and under exam conditions.
THIS MEANS SILENCE.
Everyone will need to concentrate.
You have about 4.5 hours today, which is a lot of editing time.
By the end of today you will have logged and captured all your
footage and begun to put together your rough cut.
Some of you may even complete your final cut. Kudos.
3. Editing
There are several stages to editing:
Preparing to edit (gathering rushes, labelling, organising)
Setting up your project (setting the capture scratch, project properties
etc…)
Logging, capturing and importing your rushes
Putting together a rough cut
Syncing & mastering the soundtrack
Finalizing your final cut (colour correction, effects, titles, etc….)
Exporting your final movie in an appropriate format
4. Editing
You will need to each log & capture or import the footage
from your film.
You will obviously need to take turns doing this.
I have given you enough class time so that you will not be
disadvantaged if you are the last person to capture
your footage.
5. Production Diary
Throughout the day(s) you will be keeping a production
diary where you will explain what you have done and
why you’ve done it.
Take screenshots regularly and use these to highlight
what you’re writing about.
(you can take screenshots by pressing the apple button &
4 on your keyboard and dragging the cursor over the area
you want to screenshot).
6. Production Diary
You should talk about your preparations for editing:
How did you importing footage?
Did you use bins? How did you label these bins?
How many timelines did you use? Why? How did you label these
timelines?
Where did you set the capture scratch to? What do you need to consider
when setting the capture scratch?
When setting the project up what format did you choose? Why?
When setting the project up what resolution did you choose? Why?
When setting the project up what frame rate did you choose? Why?
7. Production Diary
Because I am SO AWESOME to you lot I have put together
a word document to help you with your production diary &
evaluation.
Have a look at it before you begin.
As you go about your editing make sure you keep on
updating your diary with what you’ve been doing. If you
answer the questions as you go along you will find it makes
your life so much easier.
8. Evaluation
After we have finished editing you will be writing an evaluation of
your experiences of editing.
It is VITAL that you keep a production diary of what you’ve been
doing as this will help you write your evaluation.
Both the evaluation & your production diary will help you
increase your marks.
The production diary & evaluation are not optional.
We will go through your evaluation later this week as a class.
11. Rushes Log
A rushes log is a simple record of your original recordings
on tape / card / film reel.
They state the tape number, the day you shot the footage,
what the content of the footage is and crucially where the
tape is stored.
A copy of a Rushes Log is stored on the rooms hard-drive
in a folder called Assessed Editing. Make sure you will
this in and save it.
13. 2. Setting up your project
What is a capture scratch?
Where do you need to set your capture scratch to, and
why?
14. 2. Setting up your project
What should you name your project as?
What aspect ratio should you set your project as?
*if you drag footage from your bin to the timeline in FCP it
will ask you if you want the timeline to match the clips
settings. If you say yes it will set the aspect ratio and format
to conform to the original clips settings.
15. 2. Setting up your project
Hint: You can change your aspect ratio and project settings
by going into Sequence > Settings
18. 3. Logging & Capturing
If you already have the clips as a digital movie file what
do you need to do?
Import, log & capture, or log & import?
If you have your footage on a tape what do you need to
do?
Import, log & capture, or log & import?
If you have your footage on an SD card what do you
need to do?
Import, log & capture, or log & import?
19. Labelling clips & bins
How important is it to label your clips intelligently?
20. Labelling clips
You need to label your clips so that you know what each
clip is for.
You can do this in the bin in final cut pro, by writing in the
log note.
21. Labelling clips
Labelling clips is very important, it helps to make your
workload organised.
After you have imported / logged & captured all of your
footage you should go through your clips one at a time:
- Watch them
- Write a description in the log note
23. 4. Soundtrack
Have you thought of a song?
Why that song?
Will that affect the rhythm / pace of your edit?
What do you need to consider when picking a song?
24. 5. Exporting
What does the term compression mean?
Why might you export your video in different formats?
Video formats are ‘containers’ that hold the video and audio
data. The containers differ on the type & level of compression.
http://www.fileinfo.com/filetypes/video
Check out the above link. H264 is a good file type as it encodes
high quality video in smaller file sizes, due to a lower bit rate.
25. WOW. That’s a lot to take in.
I know, sorry.
Let’s simplify.
1. Log & capture your stuff
2. Get editing
3. Keep recording your experiences in your production
diary
That’s it! Boom!
