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Editing Operations and Control

The Editing Desk

Creative Commons image The Editing Desk by Leon Terra at Flickr

Tutorials by Premiere Gal

History of Cutting by Filmmaker IQ

Concepts from Folding Ideas

Concepts from This Guy Edits

Concepts from Every Frame a Painting

Concepts from Rocket Jump School

Concepts from Jake Coppinger

David Fincher by The Film Guy

Goal

  • Know and create resources for film editing techniques and common theories for future projects

Terms and Concepts

Skills

  • Organize Files
  • Import Footage
  • Work with Proxy Media
  • Create a Sequence
  • Add a Title
  • Add Audio
  • Adjust Sound Quality
  • Align Audio Clips
  • Separate Audio from Video
  • Make Color Adjustments
  • Change Specific Color
  • Match Color
  • Apply Visual Transition
  • Apply Audio Transition
  • Customize Transitions
  • Edit Slide Show
  • Apply Effects
  • Apply Filters
  • Use LUTS
  • Export File Sizes and Types
  • Export to YouTube

Bonus Skills

  • Edit Time-lapse Sequence
  • Face-swap
  • Animate a Logo
  • Use Live Text
  • Blur Moving Face
  • Create & Customize Subtitles
  • Edit VR Video

Editing Tutorials

  • Adobe Premiere Tutorials (Beginning and Advanced)
    • All tutorials are linked below in the time line and resources sections

Products

  • Blog posts with embedded video from YouTube of the various editing techniques demonstrated and explained

Examples

  • Coming soon…

Steps

  1. Create a blog post titled,
  2. Create blog post titled, Editing Operations and Control
    • Create headings for:
      • Summary
      • History of Cutting by Filmmaker IQ
      • Tutorials from Premiere Gal
      • Concepts from Folding Ideas
      • Concepts from This Guy Edits
      • Concepts from Every Frame a Painting
      • Concepts from Rocket Jump School
      • DSLR Look from Jake Coppinger
      • David Fincher by The Film Guy
      • Timeline
      • Project Skills Evidence
      • What I Learned and Probelsm I Solved
  3. Place the following videos under the History of Cutting by Filmmaker IQ
    heading:

  4. Place the following videos under the Tutorials from Premiere Gal heading:
  5. Place the following video under the Concepts from Folding Ideas heading
  6. Embed, watch, and take notes under Concepts from This Guy Edits heading:
  7. Embed, watch, and take notes under Every Frame a Painting heading:
  8. Embed, watch, and take notes under Rocket Jump School heading:
  9. Watch and take notes under David Fincher by The Film Guy heading:
    • Embed the video: How to Direct like David Fincher – Visual Style Breakdown – The Film Guy
    • Start watching at 10:10 where editing style split composition time remapping is described
    • Explore the Split Composition Time Remapping Demo by Ben Gill, Oxenfree Design
      • “Manipulating the timing of individual events we did a frame to improve upon what was already filmed on set most commonly used to tweak with the timing of multiple actors performances or to combine different takes of a performance this is achieved by layering multiple tapes on top of each other in compositing software and then masking out the unwanted performances and replacing them with the ones wanted.” – The Film Guy
  10. Embed, watch, and take notes under DSLR Look heading
  11. Read, explore, and add to notes from the  8 Essential Cuts Every Editor Should Know
    • The Standard Hard Cut
    • Jump Cut
    • L Cut & J Cut
    • Cutting on Action
    • Cutaways
    • Cross Cut
    • Montage
    • Match Cuts
  12. Explore the editing worksheets
  13. Read For the Sake of Conversation: On shot reverse shot
    • Add to notes:
      • Great concepts like:
        • Invisible editing
        • Split edit
        • The L-Cut
  14. Examine the Adobe Premiere Tutorials (Beginning and Advanced)
  15. Complete Adobe Premiere Editing Project 1
    • Project 1: Try basic video editing techniques
      • Download the files
      • Watch all the videos
      • Create your own version
      • Publish finished video to YouTube
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 1: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Basic Video Editing Techniques
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  16. Complete Adobe Premiere Editing Projects 2-6: Edit DSLR video
    • Publish finished videos to YouTube and embed each one into the Editing Operation and Control project blog post
    • Project 2: Explore the user interface, create and output a sequence
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 2: Adobe Premiere Pro CC User Interface
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
    • Project 3: Create a slide show
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 3: Create a Slide Show
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
    • Project 4: Create a time-lapse sequence
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 4: Time-lapse Sequence
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
    • Project 5: Apply effects, filters, and transitions
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 5: Apply Effects, Filters and Transitions
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
    • Project 6: Make color adjustments
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 6: Color Adjustments
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  17. Complete Adobe Premiere and After Effects Edting Project 7: RocketJump face-swap
    • Project 7:
      • Create a composition from clips in Premiere Pro
      • Add a face-swap effect in After Effects
      • See the face-swap composition update in Premiere Pro
      • Add the RocketJump logo
      • Export the video with Adobe Media Encoder
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 7: Face-swap
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  18. Complete Adobe Premiere and After Effects Editing Project 8: Animate a logo for video
    • Project 8:
      • Animate a logo
      • Add an animated logo to a video
      • Output your video
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 8: Animate a Logo
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  19. Complete Adobe Premiere Project 9: Mask and Track
    • Project 9:
      • Track and Mask: Blur a face as it moves throughout a clip
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 9: Blur a Face
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  20. Complete Adobe Premiere and After Effects Project 10: Use Live Text templates from After Effects in Premiere Pro
  21. Complete Adobe Premiere Project 11: Work with VR video
    • Project 11:
      • Work with VR video
      • Embed video in a  blog post titled, Editing Basics 11: Working with VR Video
      • Write a brief summary of what you did and learned under the embedded video clip
      • Link to the tutorial page
  22. Write a script for your documentary film about basic editing operations include all terms and concepts to be included in your short film
    • The point of the film is to demonstrate what you have learned about editing operations as a reference for yourself in your blog
  23. Storyboard each shot, with final edits in mind
    Storyboard template
  24. Block each shot, with final edits in mind
  25. Create the shot list for the project
  26. Create an equipment list
  27. Practice each shot, update script, as needed
  28. Gather equipment; camera, lens, shotgun mic, lights, bounce, diffuser, etc.
  29. Create a shot log
  30. Reset camera and audio deck each day to match your film choices (light, color balance, exposure, resolution, audio quality, labeling settings, etc.)
  31. Shoot each scene
  32. Save and catalog shots
  33. Edit shots in Adobe Premiere
  34. Export film, upload to YouTube, and embed in blog post
  35. Complete Summary section
  36. Complete What I Learned and Problems I Solved

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