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#1 WreckWench

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 05:40 PM

When you watch the pros shoot video they seem to edit on the fly and/or edit as they shoot their footage. Is this actually viable or just my imagination? And if its doable...how do you do it?

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 06:01 PM

When you watch the pros shoot video they seem to edit on the fly and/or edit as they shoot their footage. Is this actually viable or just my imagination? And if its doable...how do you do it?


It's doable--but it depends on the subject matter. As long as you have a controllable environment (such as an interview/talking head format) or are able to react quickly to an action as it unspools in front of you on the fly, you can claim that you are 'editing in the viewfinder.' You are still going to need to touch-up the footage in Post to make it as clean visually as possible, though.

In most environments, where you are trying to get a series of action events together to make a cohesive whole, editing in the viewfinder is extremely rare because of the sporadic nature of action in the real world. I once shot about five hours of underwater video that edited down to about 11 minutes of actually usable footage (and I still think I can tighten that up some more if I try). Someone who shoots for NatGeo once told me that on average they shoot almost 100 hours of video/film to make a one-hour program.

Having said all that, what you perceive as ease of in-camera edit actually is the fact that many pros do not shoot as indiscriminately as the rest of us, with the result that they do not have to edit quite as much to produce the final product. They do this using a technique called storyboarding, that is, they plan out the story they want to tell, and make a shooting script detailing the types of shots they will be looking for. This does not mean that they slavishly follow that storyboard should other, better opportunities present themselves for the tale they are telling, but it does keep you on track.

Orcaman and scubaski--please add your ideas if you will. Both of you do really good video.

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 06:34 PM

John, Thanks for the atta boy. I concur with all you've written. A storyboard is a staring point for your video shoot. Have a start- middle- finish. Unfortanatly all is done in pre-post editing. To answer WW question, I don't think you can edit on the fly, what you can do is setup the shot location foreground-background-subject and hope for the best. Shoot lots of footage, most you won't use. I was able to download, quick edit, format and burn onto DVD the Roatan video "Wetter is Better" on island @ resort in about 2-3hr.( that's with a lot of pratice)

WW your camera may have come with a edit package or also your laptop. Ive been using Windows Live Movie Maker most recently, it's free and downloadable to your travel computer.


Window Live Movie Maker-tutorial link below;
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 06:38 PM

Ive been using Windows Live Movie Maker most recently, it's free and downloadable to your travel computer


Is that any good? On Windows I generally use Adobe Premiere, though I much prefer iMovie on my Mac. Not that I'm an expert with either.

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 06:54 PM

Ive been using Windows Live Movie Maker most recently, it's free and downloadable to your travel computer


Is that any good? On Windows I generally use Adobe Premiere, though I much prefer iMovie on my Mac. Not that I'm an expert with either.


It's a simple, easy-to-use program. For more info, try

This.

..and THIS.

And RIGHT HERE is some free stuff for download you may want to consider.

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 07:52 PM

I've used the Windows Live Movie Maker to make 'movies' out of a set of stills, set to music, with a variety of transitions. You can even burn it to a DVD so it plays on your big screen TV, which is really cool but ONLY if you use your hi-res jpg files.

I have yet to try to storyboard any of the video I've taken....I'd like to cut bits from this or that video file and bring it in to one movie, but have not learned how yet with the Windows Live software.
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 07:10 AM

Here's an interesting bit I found that may be of some use to all, and may lessen the need to extensively correct some things in Post production:

White balance comparisons.

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 10:51 AM

Ive been using Windows Live Movie Maker most recently, it's free and downloadable to your travel computer


Is that any good? On Windows I generally use Adobe Premiere, though I much prefer iMovie on my Mac. Not that I'm an expert with either.


MS WLMM for me is easy and quick to work with on a traveling netbook. I've edited video w/ Adobe Premier Elements 4 on my desktop , lots of features but cumbersome ( computer crashes). If I had a Mac I would also probably be using iMovie. Dive resort video makers seem to like Mac-iMovie and they produce great images.
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Posted 20 January 2018 - 12:19 PM

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