Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. An Overview of the Farm to Table Project

• Interpreting a creative brief to establish goals
• Examining project assets
• Defining the project approach

2. The Documentary Postproduction Process

• Understanding the documentary postproduction process
• Focusing on the preparatory phase
• Focusing on the rough cut phase
• Focusing on the picture lock workflow

3. Organization Tools: Assembling Raw Materials

• Beginning a project
• Screening and assigning qualitative information to clips
• Looking for stock footage using the Avid Marketplace
• Marrying high-quality audio with video
• Using the Find tool and PhraseFind to search the audio in a clip
• Understanding transcoding

4. Script Integration

• Preparing a script for script integration
• Syncing a script using ScriptSync
• Manually syncing a script

5. Story and Scene Construction: Telling the Story in the Rough Cut

• An overview of the rough cut process
• Making the paper edit
• Using a two-column script
• Assembling the radio edit
• Building scenes with B-roll
• Editing process footage
• Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas
• Adding natural and environmental sound
• Correcting audio
• Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit

6. Using Documentary Effects: Repairing and Enhancing Footage

• Dealing with multiple formats in a project
• Adding movement to static images
• Stabilizing shaky footage
• Changing and fixing portions of the video frame
• Compressing and expanding time in video and audio
• Repairing jump cuts using the FluidMorph plug-in

7. Picture Lock and Finishing

• Getting feedback, making adjustments, and receiving approval
• Creating multiple titles and lower thirds
• Understanding the finishing process
• Delivering the project

Goodbye

• Next steps