Industry workflow:

Scripting: Movie is conceived or written

Production: Where you create your footage, capturing performances using video or film cameras, as well as audio recorders.

Post-Production: This is where you organize and assemble your production footage, putting scenes in proper order, selection the best takes and eliminating unnecessary elements. This is where we will work mostly in this class.

Distribution: This is when you release or finish a project or movie for viewing.  

Post-Production Workflow Planning Setting Up Logging and Capturing Editing Mixing Audio Adding Effects Outputting

Planning: Choose Format Acquiring footage, music, graphics Deciding on logging and capturing method Choosing an editing strategy Planning your use of effects All of this will determine the time and

support you will need to complete your project

Setting Up Connect your Camcorder Housekeeping

Choose correct Preset in Final Cut Save and name your file Set “Scratch Disks”

Logging and Capturing Logging is identifying shot on tape you

want to capture for use in your editing You can add scene and shot descriptions,

logging notes and markers This is how you become familiar with the

footage before you begin editing

Logging and Capturing Capturing means transferring source media

for your video source to the computers hard drive

You should capture all of your footage for your project before you start editing.

You can log all of your clips and do a “Batch Capture”

You can log then capture each clip individually You can log clips after capturing your footage

Editing Taking your recorded assets, video and

audio and arranging them in an edited sequence

Usually you start with “rough cuts” a quick arrangement, then fine-tune these cuts once you are satisfied with the order

Basic audio editing and synchronizing are part of this process in addition to your transitions such as fades and dissolves

Depending on the type of project the editing process may vary

Mixing Audio Once the video is set, you can start

working on the audio This may involve

Cleaning up dialogue (applying effects processing)

Adding sound effects, music and voiceovers Mixing the levels of all the different clips to

get a balanced sound mix

Adding Effects Enhancements to you footage

Color Correction Special transitions Animation , still or motion graphics Titles, etc.

Outputting Once your editing is finished, effects are

added and audio is mixed, you can output your movie to tape, Quicktime, the Web or for use in a DVD authoring program like DVD studio pro

Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing Nonlinear vs Linear

Linear editing “Tape to Tape” Nonlinear editing “Footage stored on Hard

Drive” This allows you to access footage

instantaneously You can combine shots in different order and

change their durations, etc.

Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing Nondestructive editing allows you to add

video and audio effects, do scaling, position, rotation and speed changes to your playback in real time and it doesn’t affect your original footage

Video Formats DV Editing:

Native support for DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, AND DVCPRO HD

Broadcast and high definition (HD) format With appropriate equipment you can capture

uncompressed SD and HD formats. Beta cam, D-5 HD and HDCAM

Project interchange: EDL (Edit Decision List), OMF(Open Media Framework), XML

(Extensible Markup Language)

Quicktime-compatible files: Because Final Cut uses Quicktime technology, any

QuickTime-compatible file can be imported

Audio Formats Final Cut is compatible with audio files

with sample rates as high as 96kHz and a bit depth of 24 bits

You can work with most audio devices like CD player, multi-track digital recorders and DAT machines.

Video Formats Most are described by the following

characteristics: Standard

NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) PAL (Phase Alternating Line) SECAM (Based on PAL) Used in France, Poland,

Haiti and Vietnam. *Not supported by Final Cut Image dimensions and aspect ratio (720X480)

etc.

Video Formats continued Frame rate

24 fps (Film, certain HD, certain SD) 25 fps (SD PAL) 29.97 fps SD NTSC 59.94 fps (720p HD) also can be 60fps

Scanning method Progressive ( every line from top to bottom) Interlaced (every other line from top to bottom) SD uses Interlaced while HD uses either.

Timecode This is a signal recorded with the video that

uniquely identifies each frame on the tape. Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences

Building blocks Media Files, Clips, and Sequences

Media Files Raw materials

Video, Audio, Graphics

Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences Clips

This is the most fundamental object in Final Cut Pro A clip points to or connects to a video, audio or

graphics media file

Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences

Sequences A container for editing clips together in a

chronological order

Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences Projects

This contains all the Clips and Sequences There is no limit to the number of items you can

store in the project

Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences

Bins This is a folder within a Project that contains

clips, sequences as well as other items

Relationship between source tapes, media files, and clips

Source tape Original videotape

Media file QuickTime movie file captured by you

Clip Object in final Cut that represents a media file

on a scratch disk When you edit or delete a clip it does not affect

the original media file on the disk.

File naming Considerations Try to avoid special characters

Watch file separators Punctuation marks, parentheses ,

quotations White space characters

Space, tabs, new lines and carriage returns

Editing should be fun and challenging. You conceive and idea in you head and Final Cut will help you bring your idea

to life.