Chapter 11 - Editing
After reading this chapter, you should know . . .
- The types of editing situations, including the difference between on-line and off-line editing, and specialized editing such as using LSMs.
- The importance of planning and making decisions about editing before entering the editing suite.
- The basic process of nonlinear editing, including capturing, editing, and exporting.
- The importance of editing aesthetics, including continuity, and ethical considerations.
1. Record a television commercial. After watching it several times, write a two-page analysis of its editing aesthetics. Your analysis should describe the transitions and various forms of continuity along with other aesthetic considerations.
2. Try editing some simple programs using your school’s editing equipment. How is the equipment/software similar to or different from the systems described in this chapter?
3. Prepare an edit decision list for some footage you have shot for a project. How does this process help you envision the finished product?
1. If you were to begin shooting a large video project tomorrow, what things would you do in the pre-editing stages to help facilitate the editing process?
2. Examine some of the video data files on a nonlinear editing system. How does their size compare to other types of computer files, such as word processing files or graphics files?
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- Nonlinear editing software.