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An Introduction to Post
Production
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The History of Editing/Post
Production• Before editing or post production, films
were one continuous shot
• Edwin S. Porter - the first man to edit amovie
– Thomas Edison’s Life of An American
Fireman
– Featured first seen cuts and insert shots
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The History of Editing/Post
Production• At the outset, considered a “technical”
not “creative” field
• One of the few positions in the early filmindustry that allowed women toparticipate
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The History of Editing
Technology• First editing technique was literally
“cutting” out the clips from the film
negatives
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The History of Editing
Technology• Linear Editing
– “Tape to Tape”
– Editor must fast forward/rewind to theplace in the tape that comes next, thenrecord it to a second tape to assembleclips into a story
– Sometimes still used in small newsmarkets
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The History of Editing
Technology• Non-Linear Editing
• Using a program, clips can be
assembled in any order
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An Introduction to Final Cut
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About FCP
• Program used for nonlinear editing
• Can be used for
– Color correction
– Basic audio correction
– Effects
– Keying graphics
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About FCP
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Resetting Scratch Disks
• This is the VERY FIRST thing you do EVERYTIME you open FCP!
• This process tells the computer where tostore important information, like temporarysave files and thumbnails.
• Always set scratch disks to your personalhard drive to prevent loss of your project
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Resetting Scratch Disks
• Final Cut Pro > System Settings > Verytop button, and very bottom three
buttons
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Resetting Scratch Discs
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Naming Your Project
• NEVER leave a project “Untitled 1”
• File > Save As… > Give your project a
descriptive or memorable name
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Opening and Closing Projects
• Be sure to close your project BEFOREyou quit FCP
• If another project is open, close itBEFORE you work on your own
• File > Close Project
• File > Open > Select File• If no projects are open, the canvas and
viewer will disappear
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Bins
• Folders used to organize clips, audio,graphics, and other elements
• Command+B will create a new bin
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Footage
• Two most common types of import
– From captured files
– Capturing from tape decks
• File > Import > Files (or Folder) > SelectFiles/Folder
• File > Log and Capture
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Timelines
• Where video, audio, graphics, etc. areassembled
• Can have multiple video and audiochannels
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Timelines
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Audio/Video
• Video on the timeline is represented bythe blue bar
• Audio on the timeline is represented bythe green bar (two)
• Usually work as a pair
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Sequences
• A set of audio and video (on a timeline)within a project
• Can have multiple sequences perproject
• A good way to save different editing
styles or days
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Tool Bar
• Far right of the timeline
• Contains a razor and several other tools
• Useful for cutting clips
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Browser
• Far left window
• Shows the bins and contents of those
bins
• Also has an effects tab
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Browser
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Viewer
• Middle Screen
• Displays the clip that is currently
selected (timeline or browser)
• Can be used to create subclips or tomark in/out points and drag to timeline
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Viewer
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Canvas
• Displays the video at the playhead onthe timeline
• Canvas and Viewer can show samepicture or may show different clips
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Canvas
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Assembling Clips
• Clips can be trimmed, dragged, orsubclipped into the desire length
• Can be inserted or overwritten into thetimeline
• Yellow is insert
• Red is overwrite
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Rendering
• When settings are adjusted or effectsare added to a clip
• Render line means that the video mustbe rendered before it can be played
• Command + R will render
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Rendering
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Some Shortcuts
• J - Rewind Playhead
• K - Stop RW or FF
• L - Fast Forward Playhead
• The more you tap J and L the faster theplayhead will move in that direction
• Spacebar - Play/Pause
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Linking and Unlinking Audio
and Video• When video and audio are linked they
will move/trim together
• When unlinked, they will moveindependently of another
• Be careful to keep audio/video linked
when you don’t need it unlinked
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Linking and Unlinking Audio
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Snap-to Tool
• Makes clips snap to one another whenthey are close
• Makes trims, cuts, or moving clips snapto the playhead
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Snap-to Tool
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Exporting
• Quicktime files can be viewed on mostcomputers and OS
• File > Export > Quicktime File
• *Tip: If you cannot open a file thatshould be a Quicktime file with
Quicktime or FCP, make sure it has the.mov extension!
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Special instructions
• Import video from camera into iMovie.
• Import the iMovie project files into Final
Cut.• Select those files in Final Cut and right
click.
• Select “Media Manager” from the menu
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Special instructions• If the “Duplicate selected clips and
place into new project” box is checked,
it will open up a new project with thenew files. If not, then it will just save
them to the scratch.• If it opened a new project, then use it
and delete the old project and the old
iMovie files.• Now you can use your files from the
camera.
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Special instructions
• If the newly “recompressed” files were
just saved to the scratch, then import
them into your current project• Then delete the old iMovie files from
Final Cut
• Now you can use your files from thecamera.