Evaluating shots and performances

- Once you've inputted all of your media,…the next step is to evaluate the shots…and the performances of your actors.…There's several ways to do this,…and I like to do this as efficiently as possible.…Now of course you could simply skim through…each of the scenes and step down…and go through them one at a time just to get…a feel for all of these takes, but one thing…I like to do is be able to just very quickly…look at them all at once.…Now, I could stretch this out and make it…a little bit longer or switch to the film strip view,…but I actually find the film strip view…gets very cluttered and it's really hard…to see what's going on.…

So I like to keep it in the list view,…and this is what I do.…I select all of the clips, command A,…and I simply bring them down to my timeline,…and I can do that by hitting the e key.…So now all of my footage for this one scene…is in my timeline.…I'm going to hit shift + z so you can see…the entire timeline at once.…So there's all my footage, and I can very quickly…skim through and get a feel for all of these shots.…