I'm running to keep up again. I spent a lot of time recently on a
non-class film project for the Huntington Theatre in Boston Mass. We
did a promotional film for a play that is running through next week
called the 39 Steps,
a comedy based on the Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller. It was a lot work
in a short time, but I, along with classmate Laura got it in on time
and made the client happy, so it was good all round.
This is the
end of the Module on the introduction to Avid, but there's another 3
weeks of Avid that follows where we edit our own film. I'm going to
spread my comments about Avid over the next few weeks. This week I'll
give you a general overview of the program and talk specifically about
the user interface and how important it is to organize your files
properly in Avid, as opposed to to Final Cut Pro.
We edited the
39 Steps promo in FCP, but it's really difficult to use one program on
a job while you're learning a different one in class. There's a lot of
lessons we learned, like how difficult it can be for two people to edit
one film, dividing up production tasks and working remotely.
I
thought you would be interested in the process of setting up for the
shoot, so I included that as well as described the equipment we used
and why. Towards the end of the podcast I've included a list of things
I would do differently, or pay more attention to if we have a chance to
do this again, which I believe we will.
Some of the highlights
of the post production process was doing color correction, creating and
working with a soundtrack and setting the compression values to optimize file quality for posting on Youtube.
