Editing at home with no editor
19/08/11 19:14 Filed in: Post Production
This week I started post production work on the Smile project. Basically, I’m going through the script and adding sound bites from the transcripts. Early on the producing staff convinced me that this was the best way to handle so many interviews. Up until this point I would go from tape to tape to string the doc together. After we shot Ford 100 or Band of Gold I had 50 tapes to review and I didn’t want that again. Also in the past I’ve done my own rough cut. Band of Gold, Ford 100 and Revisiting the Dream were all cut by me with our AVID and that worked well. I would produce a rough cut timeline and take it to a post house to finish.
This time, with no tape at all and just camera cards and hard drives, I’ve been dropping in the timecode numbers for my chosen soundbites into the script and then emailing the script to our editor for him to assemble the rough cut timeline. After that he emails me the video for review.
Don't’ get me wrong, I’m going to have to spend hours upon hours in the edit suite but for now I’m editing at home with no editor.
This time, with no tape at all and just camera cards and hard drives, I’ve been dropping in the timecode numbers for my chosen soundbites into the script and then emailing the script to our editor for him to assemble the rough cut timeline. After that he emails me the video for review.
Don't’ get me wrong, I’m going to have to spend hours upon hours in the edit suite but for now I’m editing at home with no editor.