Editing: Get Organized!
"Beauty from order springs."--William King, Art of CookeryIf, as Edmund Burke asserted, "good order is the foundation of all good things," then good video production may spring from a bit of organization. In particular, an integrated method for naming things like shots, tapes, projects and files can save one from madness when it comes time to assemble those things into productions. And it saves time by the bucketful.
There must be 100 naming systems and any of them is bound to be better than no system at all. We offer only one way here, as a point of departure. Follow these pictures to a system that will keep the best shots in your entire archive at your fingertips, and that will bring all the assets for a given project into your timeline in the right order. How can anything but beautiful video productions result?
This storyboard shows the project name that will be used on all elements of the project, as well as a sequential numbering system for scenes and shots that uses two digits for…
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