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Structuring the edit

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Structuring the edit

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There are a lot of approaches to planning an edit, and this is a good thing, because there are lot of different types of projects and a lot of different types of editors. For myself, I definitely do different things on different projects. For instance, on a longer piece with a lot of sources, I may do a more traditional editing script or paper edit, including all of the time code details for the important bites. I am also a big fan of more visual techniques, like Index Cards, which are classic, or working with a team on a big Whiteboard. Whatever the tool, the goal is always the same. You want to find a way to organize your content prior to starting the edit, to create some sort of guideline or road map, so you have an idea of the structure before you start to execute. In this case, I want to work very simple and organically for the amount of material we have. I am just going to start by listing some of the highlights from my logging process, I am going to organize it into shots and…

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