Transcript Final Cut Pro - Hollywood Services

Industry workflow:
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Scripting: Movie is conceived or written
Production: Where you create your footage, capturing
performances using video or film cameras, as well as audio
recorders.
Post-Production: This is where you organize and assemble your
production footage, putting scenes in proper order, selection the
best takes and eliminating unnecessary elements. This is where
we will work mostly in this class.
Distribution: This is when you release or finish a project or
movie for viewing.
Post-Production Workflow
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Planning
Setting Up
Logging and Capturing
Editing
Mixing Audio
Adding Effects
Outputting
Planning:
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Choose Format
Acquiring footage, music, graphics
Deciding on logging and capturing method
Choosing an editing strategy
Planning your use of effects
All of this will determine the time and support
you will need to complete your project
Setting Up
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Connect your Camcorder
Housekeeping
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Choose correct Preset in Final Cut
Save and name your file
Set “Scratch Disks”
Logging and Capturing
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Logging is identifying shot on tape you want to
capture for use in your editing
You can add scene and shot descriptions,
logging notes and markers
This is how you become familiar with the
footage before you begin editing
Logging and Capturing
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Capturing means transferring source media for
your video source to the computers hard drive
You should capture all of your footage for your
project before you start editing.
You can log all of your clips and do a “Batch
Capture”
You can log then capture each clip individually
You can log clips after capturing your footage
Editing
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Taking your recorded assets, video and audio and
arranging them in an edited sequence
Usually you start with “rough cuts” a quick
arrangement, then fine-tune these cuts once you
are satisfied with the order
Basic audio editing and synchronizing are part of
this process in addition to your transitions such as
fades and dissolves
Depending on the type of project the editing
process may vary
Mixing Audio
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Once the video is set, you can start working on
the audio
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Cleaning up dialogue (applying effects processing)
Adding sound effects, music and voiceovers
Mixing the levels of all the different clips to get a
balanced sound mix
Adding Effects
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Enhancements to you footage
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Color Correction
Special transitions
Animation , still or motion graphics
Titles, etc.
Outputting
 Once your editing is finished, effects are added
and audio is mixed, you can output your movie
to tape, Quicktime, the Web or for use in a
DVD authoring program like DVD studio pro
Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing
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Nonlinear vs Linear
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Linear editing “Tape to Tape”
Nonlinear editing “Footage stored on Hard Drive”
 This allows you to access footage instantaneously
 You can combine shots in different order and change
their durations, etc.
Nonlinear and Nondestructive Editing
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Nondestructive editing allows you to add
video and audio effects, do scaling, position,
rotation and speed changes to your playback
in real time and it doesn’t affect your original
footage
Video Formats
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DV Editing:
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Broadcast and high definition (HD) format
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With appropriate equipment you can capture
uncompressed SD and HD formats. Beta cam, D-5 HD
and HDCAM
Project interchange:
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Native support for DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50,
AND DVCPRO HD
EDL (Edit Decision List), OMF(Open Media Framework), XML (Extensible
Markup Language)
Quicktime-compatible files:
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Because Final Cut uses Quicktime technology, any
QuickTime-compatible file can be imported
Audio Formats
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Final Cut is compatible with audio files with
sample rates as high as 96kHz and a bit depth
of 24 bits
You can work with most audio devices like CD
player, multi-track digital recorders and DAT
machines.
Video Formats
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Standard
 NTSC (National Television Systems Committee)
 PAL (Phase Alternating Line)
 SECAM (Based on PAL) Used in France, Poland, Haiti
and Vietnam. *Not supported by Final Cut
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Image dimensions and aspect ratio (720X480) etc.
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Frame rate
 24 fps (Film, certain HD, certain SD)
 25 fps (SD PAL)
 29.97 fps SD NTSC
 59.94 fps (720p HD) also can be 60fps
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Scanning method
 Progressive ( every line from top to bottom)
 Interlaced (every other line from top to bottom)
 SD uses Interlaced while HD uses either.
Timecode
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This is a signal recorded with the video that
uniquely identifies each frame on the tape.
Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers
Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences
 Building blocks
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Media Files, Clips, and Sequences
Media Files
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Raw materials
 Video, Audio, Graphics
Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences
 Clips
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This is the most fundamental object in Final Cut Pro
A clip points to or connects to a video, audio or
graphics media file
Understanding Projects, Clips and
Sequences
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Sequences
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A container for editing clips together in a chronological
order
Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences
 Projects
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This contains all the Clips and Sequences
There is no limit to the number of items you can
store in the project
Understanding Projects, Clips and Sequences
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Bins
 This is a folder within a Project that contains clips,
sequences as well as other items
Relationship between source tapes, media files,
and clips
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Source tape
 Original videotape
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Media file
 QuickTime movie file captured by you
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Clip
 Object in final Cut that represents a media file on a
scratch disk
 When you edit or delete a clip it does not affect the
original media file on the disk.
File naming Considerations
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Try to avoid special characters
 Watch file separators
 Punctuation marks, parentheses , quotations
 White space characters
 Space, tabs, new lines and carriage returns
Editing should be fun and challenging. You
conceive and idea in you head and Final Cut
will help you bring your idea to life.