Precautions for feature film editing.

[Misha Aranyshev]

Are you in PAL or NTSC land?

[Walter Biscardi]

First thing you need is Shane Ross’s Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro.

https://training.creativecow.net/dvd_store/get_organized_fcp/get_organized_fcp.html

Shane’s done the best job I’ve seen so far for helping people manage projects of all sizes on FCP.

[The Dagfather] “1. What kind of software do I need?”

Nothing except maybe Colorista for color grading. Works almost exactly like FCP’s 3Way CC tool, only cleaner and a heckuva lot easier to use than Color if you’ve never touched it. I do have a DVD coming out shortly on Color through the Creative Cow Master Series and that will help you there.

[The Dagfather] “2. What kind of “precautions” do I need to take before starting to log the footage?”

Get Shane’s DVD first. Then ensure that you capture the footage to whatever format you are going to mastering to, at least the correct frame size / frame rate.

[The Dagfather] “3. What to keep in mind during logging?”

Again, Shane’s DVD. Seriously, if you’ve never handled a large project, you need to be organized.

[The Dagfather] “Another editor I spoke with said: get an editor assistant, primarly a female.
According to her females are more structured. :)”

In my experience, this is absolutely true.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[The Dagfather]

PAL.

Scandinavia.

[Misha Aranyshev]

Good.

Find out how they record production sound. Most likely it is some sort of hard disk recorder. You will be given BWF files on CD/DVD-ROM’s or a back-up HDD. You will need sound reports.

Find out how do they transfer dailies. You will need 24@25 (picture sped-up ~4%, every film frame is one video frame) tapes, Video TC, Lab Roll, Cam Roll, KeyKode burn-in. You will need telecine log files. If the log files are Scene&Take, that’s great. If not it means more work for you but that’s OK. You won’t need sound synced to picture at telecine

[The Dagfather]

Thanks alot.

Allthough I don’t understand all of it in theory right now, I guess I will understand more and more when I start logging and having contact with the lab, etc.

The film is actually shot, and is currently stored at the lab. It has been scanned to Digibeta, and the tapes are, as we speak, on its way in the mail.

I’ve ordered the Shane Ross DVD and are looking forward to getting started.
I allways feel these things are harder to understand when I don’t have my hands on the gear, tapes, etc.

The Sound has been recorded on dat and the sound report is really accurate and detailed (thank God!)

I spoke with the sound engineers when I edited the pilot, and they said the sound recordings had TC recorded on them. We didn’t get this when we logged this in, because we didn’t have the right DAT player. And the fact that we only used 2 sound recordings in the pilot I didn’t feel that this was a big problem.

I have to read a bit more about the 24 frame issue to really understand it and will spend the week browsing for articles and more info.

feel free to inform about any articles dealing with this.

Thanks guys!