Hey Everyone,
So I have a couple fairly specific questions regarding the order in which to do things while editing. Below I'll outline them and share what I have been doing. I would love to hear what you all do in these situations, or what I should change.
Color correction - Where does it fall in the post-production process? Say you have a 10 minute short - Do you edit the short together, and then bring that 10 minute clip into a program like Adobe Speedgrade and go through the film and correct it as it goes?
Or do you correct each shot, or each scene, or whatever, individually, and then edit them together after they are graded? What goes first?
Special effects - So I've been learning how to do some intermediate effects in After Effects I've been utilizing in my recent productions. Now, After Effects doesn't seem to do well with large clips, so in this case, what I've been doing is pulling in specific scenes (after editing them and exporting them out of my editing software separately) and adding my effects, then exporting them out and replacing the new scene w/ effects where the old scene w/o them was on my effects timeline. Then, they are a part of my export from my editing software.
Additional sound effects + music - I've noticed in my recent productions that by the time I've edited together all of my scenes, synced my audio in, added titles or effects or whatever is necessary in, etc, etc - My editing software is pretty jam packed. So, I export the films like that, and then make a new file where I add the sound effects and music. Good or bad process?
Now, lots of times people post here trying to get the easy way out of things. Even I've done it before, and believe me, you all set me straight! So, I'm not asking that here - I'd like to know what you all think is the best way of doing things.
Obviously I'd love for the process of all of this to be a bit more streamlined... it gets a bit crazy with Premiere editing files, After Effects effect files, Audition sound files, and Speedgrade color correction files. I don't really know if this is good or not. I know that easy and best are mutually exclusive, but streamlined and best aren't.
Thanks in advance for your help!
So I have a couple fairly specific questions regarding the order in which to do things while editing. Below I'll outline them and share what I have been doing. I would love to hear what you all do in these situations, or what I should change.
Color correction - Where does it fall in the post-production process? Say you have a 10 minute short - Do you edit the short together, and then bring that 10 minute clip into a program like Adobe Speedgrade and go through the film and correct it as it goes?
Or do you correct each shot, or each scene, or whatever, individually, and then edit them together after they are graded? What goes first?
Special effects - So I've been learning how to do some intermediate effects in After Effects I've been utilizing in my recent productions. Now, After Effects doesn't seem to do well with large clips, so in this case, what I've been doing is pulling in specific scenes (after editing them and exporting them out of my editing software separately) and adding my effects, then exporting them out and replacing the new scene w/ effects where the old scene w/o them was on my effects timeline. Then, they are a part of my export from my editing software.
Additional sound effects + music - I've noticed in my recent productions that by the time I've edited together all of my scenes, synced my audio in, added titles or effects or whatever is necessary in, etc, etc - My editing software is pretty jam packed. So, I export the films like that, and then make a new file where I add the sound effects and music. Good or bad process?
Now, lots of times people post here trying to get the easy way out of things. Even I've done it before, and believe me, you all set me straight! So, I'm not asking that here - I'd like to know what you all think is the best way of doing things.
Obviously I'd love for the process of all of this to be a bit more streamlined... it gets a bit crazy with Premiere editing files, After Effects effect files, Audition sound files, and Speedgrade color correction files. I don't really know if this is good or not. I know that easy and best are mutually exclusive, but streamlined and best aren't.
Thanks in advance for your help!
