Production Diary 7- 13/03/19 Live Editing Masterclass

Now that we have finished the show, it was time to start editing.

In order to edit in a proper live editing fashion, on of our lecturers, Freddie’s showed us the steps of live editing.

Firstly, before opening premiere software, we had to label all of the footage and audio into the correct order and put it all in individual folders, for example the Take 1 roll folder had all of its footage and audio in one folder together and each one was labelled something along the lines of “Callie’s audio – take 1” or “Master Camera take 1”.

After doing this, we had to open Adobe Premiere Pro and import the folder which had all of the footage and audio in it, this took a while due to the larger folder size but once it was all uploaded, Freddie began explain what the we had to do for editing.

He first told us to click the arrows on each of the “take” folders so that we could see all of the footage and audio in them. Then pressing down the “CTRL” we had to select all of the take 1’s from each folder, once we had done this, we had to right click and select “create multi camera sequence” and the software matched the frequencies of the camera audio to the up with the microphone audio and creating a sequence all in go. Then to edit the clips and make cuts, we had to use the multi camera toggle to choose which angle/ shot we want to use, when you click the cut you want to use, it automatically cuts it for you.

This is how I intend to edit each cut throughout the editing process.

In regards to editing progress today, I managed to finished editing the first take. It took a while for all all of the footage and audio to transfer over to Premiere Pro due to its large size in addition to everyone else in the class editing the same footage hence why I only managed to finish editing the first take. Additionally while editing, it took a while to do so because the footage was lagging quite a bit, making it difficult to make accurate cuts. However, next lesson, the footage should flow more smoothly due to some of the class downloading the footage onto their personal memory sticks. Therefore, I plan on starting on take 2 as soon as possible.