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An Introduction to Post

Production



The History of Editing/Post

Production• Before editing or post production, films

were one continuous shot

• Edwin S. Porter - the first man to edit amovie

– Thomas Edison’s Life of An American

Fireman

– Featured first seen cuts and insert shots

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The History of Editing/Post

Production• At the outset, considered a “technical”

not “creative” field

• One of the few positions in the early filmindustry that allowed women toparticipate



The History of Editing

Technology• First editing technique was literally

“cutting” out the clips from the film

negatives




Technology• Linear Editing

– “Tape to Tape”

– Editor must fast forward/rewind to theplace in the tape that comes next, thenrecord it to a second tape to assembleclips into a story

– Sometimes still used in small newsmarkets




Technology• Non-Linear Editing

• Using a program, clips can be

assembled in any order



An Introduction to Final Cut

Pro



About FCP

• Program used for nonlinear editing

• Can be used for

– Color correction

– Basic audio correction

– Effects

– Keying graphics



About FCP



Resetting Scratch Disks

• This is the VERY FIRST thing you do EVERYTIME you open FCP!

• This process tells the computer where tostore important information, like temporarysave files and thumbnails.

• Always set scratch disks to your personalhard drive to prevent loss of your project



Resetting Scratch Disks

• Final Cut Pro > System Settings > Verytop button, and very bottom three

buttons



Resetting Scratch Discs



Naming Your Project

• NEVER leave a project “Untitled 1”

• File > Save As… > Give your project a

descriptive or memorable name



Opening and Closing Projects

• Be sure to close your project BEFOREyou quit FCP

• If another project is open, close itBEFORE you work on your own

• File > Close Project

• File > Open > Select File• If no projects are open, the canvas and

viewer will disappear



Bins

• Folders used to organize clips, audio,graphics, and other elements

• Command+B will create a new bin



Footage

• Two most common types of import

– From captured files

– Capturing from tape decks

• File > Import > Files (or Folder) > SelectFiles/Folder

• File > Log and Capture



Timelines

• Where video, audio, graphics, etc. areassembled

• Can have multiple video and audiochannels



Timelines



Audio/Video

• Video on the timeline is represented bythe blue bar

• Audio on the timeline is represented bythe green bar (two)

• Usually work as a pair



Sequences

• A set of audio and video (on a timeline)within a project

• Can have multiple sequences perproject

• A good way to save different editing

styles or days



Tool Bar

• Far right of the timeline

• Contains a razor and several other tools

• Useful for cutting clips



Browser

• Far left window

• Shows the bins and contents of those

bins

• Also has an effects tab



Browser



Viewer

• Middle Screen

• Displays the clip that is currently

selected (timeline or browser)

• Can be used to create subclips or tomark in/out points and drag to timeline



Viewer



Canvas

• Displays the video at the playhead onthe timeline

• Canvas and Viewer can show samepicture or may show different clips



Canvas



Assembling Clips

• Clips can be trimmed, dragged, orsubclipped into the desire length

• Can be inserted or overwritten into thetimeline

• Yellow is insert

• Red is overwrite



Rendering

• When settings are adjusted or effectsare added to a clip

• Render line means that the video mustbe rendered before it can be played

• Command + R will render



Rendering



Some Shortcuts

• J - Rewind Playhead

• K - Stop RW or FF

• L - Fast Forward Playhead

• The more you tap J and L the faster theplayhead will move in that direction

• Spacebar - Play/Pause



Linking and Unlinking Audio

and Video• When video and audio are linked they

will move/trim together

• When unlinked, they will moveindependently of another

• Be careful to keep audio/video linked

when you don’t need it unlinked



Linking and Unlinking Audio

and Video



Snap-to Tool

• Makes clips snap to one another whenthey are close

• Makes trims, cuts, or moving clips snapto the playhead



Snap-to Tool



Exporting

• Quicktime files can be viewed on mostcomputers and OS

• File > Export > Quicktime File

• *Tip: If you cannot open a file thatshould be a Quicktime file with

Quicktime or FCP, make sure it has the.mov extension!



Special instructions

• Import video from camera into iMovie.

• Import the iMovie project files into Final

Cut.• Select those files in Final Cut and right

click.

• Select “Media Manager” from the menu



Special instructions• If the “Duplicate selected clips and

place into new project” box is checked,

it will open up a new project with thenew files. If not, then it will just save

them to the scratch.• If it opened a new project, then use it

and delete the old project and the old

iMovie files.• Now you can use your files from the

camera.



Special instructions

• If the newly “recompressed” files were

just saved to the scratch, then import

them into your current project• Then delete the old iMovie files from

Final Cut

• Now you can use your files from thecamera.

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