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part 2:

Video Editingfor Smart People

Presented by Morgan Reid, Learning Technologies Specialist

Part 2 outline:• The editor• The language of film and video• Tools and techniques• Practice and play


Teach me to fish, and I will never be hungry, as long as there are fish, that is, but you know what I mean. (Adapted from Chinese proverb)


This workshop is designed to help smart people work with digital media.

This workshop is less about using specific applications than about knowing what you need to do, in editing terms.


Two kinds of editor:


Two kinds of editor: 1. The communicator: understands visual language, rhythm, and the language of time-based media.


Two kinds of editor: 1. The communicator understands visual language, rhythm, and the language of time-based media.

2. The Button-pusher knows how to use the current application.(these technical skills are valuable!)


“The editor has to be the ombudsman for the audience.

As an editor you only see what goes on the screen, not what was going on at the time of shooting.

And that’s how it’s going to look to the audience. I make it a principle not to go on the set, not to see the actors out of costume, not to see anything other than the images that come to me from location.”

Walter MurchPresented by Morgan Reid, Learning Technologies Specialist

Above all, an editor

1. can see and hear what’s on the screen, and

2. is willing to work on it.


The editing process:

• Acquire• Select• Cut• arrange• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits(more on the editing process

shortly)


Comparing the languages of writing and editing:


Text

letters

words

paragraphs

Narrative stage

Essay, story, poem



Text Video?

letters

words

paragraphs

Narrative stage

Essay, story, poem



Text Video

letters frames

words shots

paragraphs scenes

Narrative stage sequence

Essay, story, poem Film, video

What’s missing?


Text Video

… …

letters frames

word shots

paragraphs scenes

Narrative stage sequence

Essay, story, poem Film, video


Text Video

punctuation cuts, transitions

letters frames, images

words shots, images

paragraphs scenes

narrative stage sequence

essay, story, poem

film, video


• Acquire• Select• Cut (trim clips)• arrange (rough cut)• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits



• Acquire = import, open, load, get• Select = choose clips• Cut• arrange• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits



• Acquire = import, open, load, get• Select = choose clips• Cut• arrange• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits



• Acquire = import, open, load, get

• Select = choose clips• Cut = trim clips• arrange• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits




• Select = choose clips• Cut = trim clips• arrange => rough cut• review• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits




• Select = choose clips• Cut = trim clips• arrange => rough cut• review = audience mode• transitions• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits



• Acquire = import, open, load, get• Select = choose clips• Cut = trim clips• arrange => rough cut• review = audience mode• transitions = separation,

connections• fine cut• add titles, effects, credits




connections• fine cut: trim a few frames, go

back to 4.• add titles, effects, credits




connections• fine cut: trim a few frames, go

back to 4• add titles, effects, credits




connections• fine cut: trim a few frames, go back

to 4• add titles, effects, credits


Tools for editing:

1. Bundled (free) application(Apple) iMovie (6!), (MS) MovieMaker


Tools for editing:


2. Purchased applicationFinal Cut, Avid, Premiere, (many

more)


Tools for editing:


2. Purchased applicationFinal Cut, Avid, Premiere, (many

more)3. A downloaded (free) open-source

applicationVirtualDub (others…)


Tools for editing:


2. Purchased applicationFinal Cut, Avid, Premiere, (many more)

3. A downloaded (free) open-source applicationVirtualDub (others…)

4. Web video www.jumpcut.com (others…)


http://www.jumpcut.com/

Things to look for:

• A way to get or open files• A way to select and act on the clips• A way to arrange on a timeline• A way to play back clips• A way to save, export, or publish the

movie• A way to apply transitions• A way to add titles, effects, credits


Thinking about digital media and learning

1. How do we learn about media?2. How do students learn about media?


Thinking about digital media and teaching

1. (How) Do we teach about digital media?


Thinking about digital media and teaching

1. Is there a question of culture in teaching and learning with digital media?


Contact:

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Av Editing Video May28 08 Heuristics