Once you’ve shot your project the next step is the edit. If you have planned your shoot well, then you’ll have a pretty good idea of what footage you have and where it goes in the edit. Key thing at this stage is not to get into detail, but rather take the helicopter view and […]
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Everything you wanted to know about editing, from organising your shots through to outputting a finished video.
After the shooting stops … (the cutting begins) This is a wonderful book by Ralph Rosenblum, who edited six Woody Allen films. He also edited The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. The book is a great insight into the world of feature film editing. It’s unlikely you’ll be editing a feature film, but once you’ve […]
Back in the ‘old days’ when you had finished editing the film you’d shot, it was stored in metal cans on a shelf. When videotape took over, the tapes were stored in large plastic cases. Whilst one of the proposed advantages of videotape was that it could be re-used, often it wasn’t because of the […]
This post is part 2 of a series on editing your first video. (Read the first post here) Know your Grammar When you write, you use grammar. Grammar is what gives you the structure of a sentence. Defn: Grammar: ‘The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences’. Film and video also […]
This is the first post in a series that follows my three earlier posts on check list for your first video shoot. I’m assuming you know your way around whatever NLE you’re using and you’re now ready to start editing the footage you’ve shot. (NLE – Non-linear editing. This describes programs such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe […]