Posts Tagged ‘editing’

Docu

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

The script is now written, and I’ve gone over it with my narrator for timing etc. This will take a little bit of reediting, as some sequences are too short for the narration needed. Of course, I totally expected that.

Anxious to get back to it.

One tool that’s helped me a lot with this step is Adobe Clip Notes. This is a great little tool in Adobe Premiere Pro that allows you to create a PDF with your video in it. Then there is a note pad at the bottom and the people you send the clip to can make notes at any point in the movie and their comments get cataloged at the timecode where they made the comment. Then you can import it back into Premiere and see their comments connected with the timecode. I used this to send it to my narrator to get comments and then the video was already at his house for us to go over with the script. Yes it is at greatly reduced resolution, but that didn’t impact the work that we were doing.

Rough Cut Done

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Tonight has been a big deal for me. I just completed the first rough cut of my first documentary short. In the next couple of days, I will start writing the script for the voice over narration and adding the subtitles for telling the audience who certain people are. Then it’s on to sweetening the sound, mainly a matter of eliminating recording hiss. The audio system on the 5d MkIIincreases the gain level when there aren’t any loud sounds, this creates a lot of recording hiss. The 5d MkII is not a perfect solution for recording video, but does a very good job and serves its intended roles in video quite well. As I see it, the intended roles in video for the new video dSLRs are to introduce people to video and to allow for recording some clips for posting to the web without the photojournalist carrying additional cameras. I recommend following Vincent Laforet’s blog for cutting edge information about video capable dSLRs.

Hopefully, this project will convince inhabitants of the Willamette Valley to help out with savanna restoration. Some of the invasive weeds project that the Friends of the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex furthers restoration. Just about anyone around here can help us pulling weeds.

Workstation

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

A short note about editing my documentary.

My Cerise 8 core workstation for editing my photos and videos has arrived. The process of transferring my photo libraries and associated software to it hasn’t been much fun, but the workstation plays back the videos flawlessly, facillitating editing. With my earlier PC I was losing so many dropped frames it was impossible to tell where I wanted to make any cuts. Exciting times lie ahead as I can work towards my new goals with my business.