Overview
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Learn how to shoot and prepare footage for editing in Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. Get production strategies to streamline your video editing and maximize your creative choices.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using exercise files
- Using producer exercise files
- Why "fix it in post" no longer works
- Advantages of prepping for the production-to-post handoff
- Involving your post-production team before the shoot
- Creating your creative brief
- Creating your concept boards
- Determining and communicating technical requirements
- Rights management
- Using slates to capture essential information and sync angles
- Taking useful field notes for editing with Live Logger
- Taking useful field notes for editing with Google Docs and continuous field notes
- Why room tone matters
- Time of day timecode
- Prepping your shoot materials
- 3-2-1 backup strategies for source footage
- Planning for transcripts of interviews
- The benefits of having a DIT on set
- Preparing transcript “best bites” and shot selects for editing
- Handing off an editing script
- Preparing a list of stock, archival, and graphics assets
- Reviewing and revising your post-production plan
- Prepping your shoot materials
- Managing expectations and reviews
- Essential metadata to add to your clips in Final Cut Pro X
- Using tags and keywords to further organize media in Final Cut Pro X
- Using subclips to organize long clips in Final Cut Pro X
- Syncing dual sound media in Final Cut Pro X
- Syncing multicamera projects in Final Cut Pro X
- Essential metadata to add to your clips in Prelude
- Intermediate to advanced users of Excel
- Using subclips to organize long clips in Premiere Pro
- Syncing dual sound media in Premiere Pro
- Syncing multicamera projects in Premiere Pro
- Future-proofing your project
- Exporting files for audio post and color grading
- Conclusion
