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■ EDITING WORKFLOW

Capturing material in this way enhances the creative process, as we discussed. All

of a sudden, the project becomes bigger than the sum of its parts. You can add more—

as much as you like—until it becomes better and better. It’s something akin to adding

tracks to a musical recording. The more tracks, the better. (In some cases, at least.)

Reading the history of modern musical artists is interesting. Paul McCartney

of the Beatles didn’t want to add orchestra to the piece. George Martin insisted. The

result was a modern classic. It happens all the time, both in music and video. The

more tracks, the better.

Using Free DV and Xpress Capture tools, you’ll need to make a few primary

decisions before going through the procedure. These decisions are discussed more in

Chapter 2, but here they are:

• How much drive space do I need to complete this program?

• What resolution should I use? (Not necessary for Free DV.)

• What will be the final medium for output?

• How do I name or number each tape?

I mentioned that these are done before capture. Again, without some form of

structure, projects atrophy. If you make some of these decisions later, it will take more

time to restructure the project, which gives you less time to create and complete it. As

you become more familiar with Free DV and Xpress, you will highly value that creative

thinking time. We’ll cover capture completely in Chapter 2.

Edit

The next step in the workflow is to edit (see Figure 1.10). That may sound like com-

mon sense, but there’s one thing that’s different. When I mention edit, I mean to say

that you will put together the elements in the order you believe they should go. The in

points and out points of each picture might not be “tight” at this point. The rhythm of

the scene might not match what you want yet. But there are other tools for this, as you

will see.

Note: I remember editing some promotional pieces for the movie Tequila Sunrise. A friend had gone to

see it and mentioned a steamy hot tub scene.I replied,“Hot tub scene? Hot tub scene? Where was I?” It was

decided to add the scene after I edited the promotionals (promotional pieces are frequently edited well before

the release of the picture),so I missed out.But I am getting ahead of myself here.

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