Join Ashley Kennedy for an in-depth discussion in this video Focusing on the rough cut phase, part of Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing.
Once you've screened your footage, taking detailed notes, and properly organized and…labeled your footage in appropriate bins and folders, it's time to begin editing the rough cut.…The rough cut is the fun part.…It includes all the major story formation in which the editor constructs the scenes…and assembles the narrative.…Often, once the main project goals are defined the rough cut is constructed in relative separation…from the film's other invested stakeholders in order to let the editor flesh out the documentary structure.…Because of this the rough cut is often called the editor's cut.…
Later in this course we'll discuss many elements of creating the rough cut.…For now we'll just take a fairly high-level view of the story creation process.…So after you've gone through some of the first stages in finding out the style, audience,…and intention of the documentary, you should have a pretty good idea about how'd like to…tackle the process in terms of the formation and enhancement of your thesis and supporting points.…
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9/26/2012This course is part of a series that looks at Documentary Editing from the point of view of 3 different editors in 3 different editing applications. For more insight on editing documentary projects, take a look at Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro and Documentary Editing with Final Cut Pro X.
- Interpreting a creative brief
- Exploring the documentary postproduction process
- Organizing footage and using searching techniques
- Setting up and using digital transcripts
- Building sequences and scenes to form the rough cut
- Adding effects to repair and enhance footage
- Fine-tuning the sequence to reach picture lock
- Receiving feedback
- Finishing the film with titles, color correction, and professional audio
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 33s
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Using the exercise files4m 36s
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1. An Overview of the Farm to Table Project
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Examining project assets3m 43s
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2. The Documentary Postproduction Process
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3. Organization Tools: Assembling Raw Materials
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Beginning a project10m 28s
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4. Script Integration
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Manually syncing a script4m 45s
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5. Story and Scene Construction: Telling the Story in the Rough Cut
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Making the paper edit3m 9s
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Using a two-column script3m 33s
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Assembling the radio edit7m 15s
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Building scenes with B-roll9m 30s
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Editing process footage6m 29s
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Correcting audio6m 22s
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6. Using Documentary Effects: Repairing and Enhancing Footage
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Stabilizing shaky footage3m 23s
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7. Picture Lock and Finishing
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Delivering the project7m 44s
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Goodbye
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Next steps1m 28s
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