Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video

by Gael Chandler

Overview

This second edition of Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video covers the current landscape of postproduction process, taking the reader step by step through the editor’s journey from receiving dailies to delivering on film, tape, file, or disk for YouTube, cinema, Blu-ray, or TV. The book guides the filmmaker through the operation of digital editing systems, sound and music editing and the mix, and tape, tapeless, and film workflows. The middle section lasers in on how to edit the footage: Make cuts, video effects, overlaps, and cheat shots as well as how to approach different genres such as comedy, documentary, drama, and music videos. The final section takes on music and sound editing and the mix, and wraps up by describing finishing processes including online, negative cutting, and DI processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615930906
Publisher:	Wiese, Michael Productions
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Edition description:	Second Edition, Revised
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	962,687
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Gael Chandler has edited comedies, dramas, documentaries, features, corporate videos, and promos, and cut on every type of medium: film, tape, and digital. Nominated twice for a Cable ACE award for editing a comedy series, she is a member of the Editors Peer Group of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and annually judges the Emmy and College TV awards. Her second book, Film Editing: Great Cuts Filmmakers and Movie Lovers Should Know, published in 2009, is filled with basic and complex editing concepts that make the invisible art of editing visible using 600 colorful frames from popular recent films. Her website is www.joyoffilmediting.com.

Table of Contents

STAGE I  SETTING UP AND ORGANIZING
Part One Starting your Project   
Ch 1 Decisions, Decisions: Getting Started on the Right Path through Postproduction     
    Appendix A     Project Checklist                           
Ch 2 Video, Digital, and Film Basics: Terms, Concepts, and Practices    
Part Two  Organizing for Editing
Ch 3 Setting up the Cutting Room: Workflows, Labeling Shots, and Other Cutting Room Common Tasks
    Appendix B    DIY Postproduction Schedule                   
Ch 4 Preparing Dailies                           
    Appendix C    Stage One: Budget Form for Dailies                     

STAGE II  EDITING
Part One How to Approach the Footage
Ch 5 To Cut or not to Cut: Where to Cut and Why           
Ch 6 Everyday Editing Challenges                       
Ch 7 From Animation to Reality: Editing Different Genres        
Part Two Getting from First Cut to Final Cut
Ch 8 Making the Cuts: Editing on a Digital System           
Ch 9 The Process: Getting from First Cut to Locked Cut           
    Appendix D    Tape and Tapeless Show Continuity Form                
    Appendix E     Film Show Continuity Form                       
    Appendix F     Stage Two: Budget Form for Editing                    

STAGE III FINISHING
Part One Sound, Music, and the Mix
Ch 10  Designing Sound and Music
Ch 11  Editing and Mixing Sound and Music               
    Appendix G     ADR Cue Sheet                           
    Appendix H    Stage Three: Budget Form for Sound, Music, and the Mix         
Part Two Finishing and Delivering
Ch 12  Finishing on Tape, File or the Web                     
Ch 13 Finishing on Film and via DI                         
    Appendix I     Stage Three: Budget Form for Finishing                 
How to Find an Editing Job                                 
Resources
Glossary                            
Bibliography