Course curriculum

  • 01

    Introduction

    • Welcome

    • What you should know before watching this course

    • Exercise Files

  • 02

    The Challenges of Moving Between Production and Post

  • 03

    Things to Accomplish Before the Shoot

  • 04

    Shoot Essentials for a Smoother Edit

    • Using slates to capture essential information and sync angles

    • How to take useful field notes for editing with Live Logger

    • How to take useful field notes for editing with Google Docs and continuity note style

    • Why room tone matters

  • 05

    Effective Media Management On-Set

  • 06

    Things to Accomplish Before the Edit

    • Preparing transcripts “best bites” and shot selects for editing

    • Handing off an editing script

    • Preparing a list of stock, archival and graphics assets

  • 07

    The post-production Kickoff

    • Reviewing and revising your post-production plan

    • Prepping your shoot materials

    • Managing expectations and reviews

  • 08

    Setting Up Your Final Cut Pro X Project for Success

    • Essential metadata to add to your clips in Final Cut Pro X

    • Using tags and keywords to further organize media in Final Cut Pro X

    • Using subclips to organize long clips in Final Cut Pro X

    • Syncing dual sound media in Final Cut Pro X

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    • Syncing multicamera projects in Final Cut Pro X

  • 09

    Setting Up Your Premiere Pro Project for Success

    • Essential metadata to add to your clips in Adobe Prelude

    • Using tags and keywords to further organize media in Adobe Premiere Pro

    • Using subclips to organize long clips in Adobe Premiere Pro

    • Syncing dual sound media in Adobe Premiere Pro

    • Syncing multicamera projects in Adobe Premiere Pro

  • 10

    Additional Post-production Strategies

    • Future proofing your project

    • Exporting files for audio post and color-grading

  • 11

    Conclusion

    • Conclusion