From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 3 Editing and Post
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Getting the project in order
From the course: Learning Documentary Video: 3 Editing and Post
Getting the project in order
- When you're ready to start editing the documentary, you're really not going to technically be editing for awhile unless you're working with an assistant editor who's already organized everything perfectly. And even if you are working with an assistant editor, you'll still likely need to take a significant amount of time to really watch and form opinions about all the interviews and footage. I'm going to assume that you'll be organize everything yourself, since that's what I did for the project Reload doc. So, we'll cover some important points in project organization and we'll also talk about post-production planning. That said, everyone organizes differently, so take from this what is useful and then work to create and organization workflow that works for you. So, I'd first like to show you a few things about how I got the footage. Here is the footage as it was transferred right from the camera cards. Okay, so as you can see, it's not readily clear what anything is, I have a very…
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