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Determining and communicating technical requirements

Determining and communicating technical requirements

From the course: Video Editing: Moving from Production to Post

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Determining and communicating technical requirements

- You've gone through your pre-production process of planning for post, which means you've got some kind of storyboards for a look or a design for this piece. You've got a script that you're going to shoot with and eventually take with you into the edit, shot list, asset list, all of those tools. Now it's time to have a dialogue and communicate with your post team or your editor or, perhaps, even yourself if you're doing the post on how you're going to do the technical requirements for this particular title. - Absolutely, a conversation like that is invaluable to me because depending on what it is that I get from the shoot, I will be able to deliver or not be able to deliver what you need, so let's talk about things like frame rates or frame sizes. Are you shooting in 4K? Well, if you want to shoot in 4K, that's great! But how is this going to deliver? If you just want to deliver a talking head that never zooms in or out and you're giving to me 4K and I need to deliver 1920 by 1080…

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