Questions tagged [workflow]
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Does version control have a part in the video production workflow?
I'm a software developer and I'm also interested in photography (for four years) and video production (for a few months only).
■ In software development, there is an important rule every developer ...
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How to add images at the end of an existing movie?
I'd like to add some images at the end of a mp4 file via ffmpeg:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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How can I stay motivated and become more productive as a video editor?
I really like the editing process, how it's possible to bring a vision you've had to life, by timing things just right, etc. It's a great art.
Unfortunately I am super un-productive at it. This has ...
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Motion capture and 3D model formats
I have a light background in CAD and modelling, and I want to use some virtual sets with motion capture.
I'm trying to determine what program/platform my next 3D model should use if I want to work ...
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Transcription Methods/Times
I figured I'd leave a question here while I did the manual labor, but what do you find is the best way to transcribe footage?
I'm an editor and the first thing I like to do is create a script of ...
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Effective working at audio/video editing sessions (avoid fatigue making steady progress)
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I've just completed an editing project to produce video highlights of an awards evening for my local community radio station. It was a voluntary non-paid project and I'm very pleased the ...
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Workflow for Adobe Premiere?
I'm new to editing. I'm from a photography background, using Lightroom. I've a set workflow for processing my images there, taking them from initially applying metadata, through triaging into folders ...
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Transcription Methods/Times
I figured I'd leave a question here while I did the manual labor, but what do you find is the best way to transcribe footage?
I'm an editor and the first thing I like to do is create a script of ...
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How can I keep my project-specific Motion elements together with my Final Cut projects?
I'm producing a video with several graphics animations, and some of them need to be done in Motion. What's the best way to store a Motion animation that will only be used in one place in one FCP ...
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How to batch process hundreds of videos?
I have hundreds of videos in storage I need to distribute online. I'd like to do the following for each clip:
Add a pre-roll video
Process the audio (audio leveling, generic hiss/noise reduction for ...
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Premiere distorts 2.0 anamorphic R3D footage when paused in the source viewer
This is my first time working with anamorphic red footage. When I view footage in the source monitor, all anamorphic clips are sheared diagonally (image below):
The problem does not persist when ...
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How to annotate specific parts of video in pre-production?
When working in pre-production I usually have a lot of video material which I all subsequently place on the timeline and cut specific parts which I will/can use.
Then when starting to work on ...
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Creating a one-off non-pro video to document a project - what software would be sensible?
I should say straight up, I'm not a video professional, although I've used simple tools such as VirtualDub and ffmpeg a lot over the years. I have probably used incorrect terminology here, if so ...
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Transitions in Premiere Pro CC 2015 with After Effects Sequence
I have two clips in Premiere, to which I want to add a black fade transition. So far that works without a problem.
But when I replace the clips with After Effects compositions (because I want to add ...
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Best way to edit mashup video of downloaded movies?
So I wanted to do a mashup video for personal usage, meaning scenes cut from downloaded commercial movies or Youtube. This is typically relatively highly compressed h264-material.
The workflow that I ...
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Help with playback stutter in Sony Vegas Pro 11
I've got 2 DSLRs in my kit, a Nikon D7000 and a Nikon D3S, for 1080i and 720p respectively. I experienced stuttering playback with footage from both cameras, and figured it was something with Nikon's ...
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After effects workflow for several similar clips
I have to create animations that will be displayed on a screen when a player scores.
Each player will have his own animation (with a photo and his name).
But all the animations will essentially be the ...
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Creating series of instagram videos with the same templates in premieme pro
I am a content provider and have an instagram account with 86K followers. I need to upload at least 4 videos everyday. Until now, I created about 300 videos. All of them have been edited in just one ...
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Editing involving several backup drives: how to assemble a project with minimal clip duplication?
This question might be a little complex, but here's the situation:
We are a small team and we shoot almost every day, we do correspondence-type shooting. We are backing up our footage to external ...
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4K Workflow in FCPX - crop down for multicam angles
Shot an 80min interview @ 4K 422LT (271GB)on BMPC and want to create 3x 720p angles for multicam. Unsure if it's best to create them as compound clips cropped from the one 4K master clip inside of ...
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Reverse order of clips when importing from card or camera in Final Cut Pro X?
When I'm doing to-camera commentary in my studio, a regular part of my workflow is to record some footage on my DSLR and then import it immediately into Final Cut Pro X. I'll often need another take (...
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App to quickly analyze audio loudness of several video files?
Is there an app for OSX that lets you quickly analyze the loudness of a bunch of video files, shows you the peak and RMS loudness of each file in dBFS (I think dBTP and LUFS would be too much to ask ...
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How are motion graphics like this created?
A few days ago i was browsing a forum, and I came across this person's signature which was underneath their comment. I contacted them a few days ago because I was interested in how this sort of motion ...
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How do I batch replace video clips in Premiere to graded copies? (from Da Vinci Resolve)
My color grader and I are working in parallel. I'm editing in Adobe Premiere, and he is grading in Da Vinci Resolve (version CC 2015.2 and 12, respectively). I gave him an early rough cut of the ...
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Red Epic, Adobe Premiere Editing Workflow
We shot some stuff on a Red Epic. The footage is on a 2TB Hitachi HD. Now I need to edit the footage. I can't transfer all the footage to my MacPro desktop because it is too many TB and will take too ...
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Workflow to ingest files from Zoom audio recorder
I use a Zoom H5 audio recorder, and when I copy the audio files from it I like to have them sitting next to the video files they correspond too.
The problem is the way Zoom stores files: every clip ...
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Workflow of editing in Premiere and Color Grading in Davinci
I am new to color grading in Davinci Resolve (Studio) and am not sure about how the workflow should go.
As far as I understand there are three options:
Color Correct all Clips and render in losless ...
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How to handle credit
How do you organise and remember all the people that helped in the project?
Do you simply have an excel sheet with the names and what the person did?
Thanks!
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How to export, then edit, finally replace individual clips in Premiere Pro?
I have a sequence, which has many clips on timeline - shorter and longer ones, from different (long) video source files.
I'd like to export all these properly trimmed clips to individual uncompressed ...
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Looking for suggestions on workflow/equipment: daily production of short presentation videos
i am looking for any and all sort of suggestions on workflow and equipment, specifically camcorder choice.
Case details:
We are producing short videos every day. A person is standing in front
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MP4 to DVD - suggestion for workflow
After a break of a few years I have started doing video editing again. So I bought Sony Vegas and later upgraded it to the latest version.
For this particular project my source files was created by ...
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What kind of hardware do I need for a multi-person editing team?
What are some good ("Pro?") ways of storing videos so that a team of editors can work on them?
I currently work for an eLearning company that produces medium-large quantities of instructional videos (...
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Adobe CC Post-Production Workflow (Story, Prelude etc.)
I've never understood the post-production workflow Adobe has designed.
I understand the steps from the editing stage onwards (assume this is a large enough production to require all steps):
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Batch-importing images in sync with audio/markers
I am trying to create a sequence that displays hundreds of images in succession. I want the images to change according to the speed/mood/beat of the music that plays at that moment. For example, ...
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Davinci Resolve - Store Clips Edited in Cut Window in a Media Folder
I am working on a video project in DaVinci Resolve. It a short video documenting a piece of installation art. One of the media files is a handheld camera that takes close up shots of different parts ...
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Editing with music: what workflow produces the best results?
What would produce the best result, in terms of quality?
So I like to go out and take some random dynamic, smooth, clips of places around my neighborhood with my Flycam, but I'm wondering what would ...
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Best file format workflow for Final Cut Pro 7 on Maveriks
i am having problems exporting my project in Final Cut Pro 7.
All the clips i am working on are mov in h.264.
I want to export correctly a master file, that will be converted in web format, hd... with ...
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Switching from Adobe to Resolve
I want to switch from Adobe Pr to Resolve.
I downloaded it and now have some questions:
How can I put any of the windows (Timeline, Preview...) on another screen?
All in all the customisation seems ...
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my client is unhappy with the video editing of the evening dancing as we havent used the actual audio but used songs that were playing that evening
My client is unhappy with the outcome of evening dance footage since we didn't use a recording of the actual music being played that evening. Instead we used clean music, the original CD recording of ...
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Issues with uncompressed video in edting software
I want to create a video from a collection of sequences I took with a light portable camera in 1080p. Because the sequences are quite shaky I used VirtualDub/Deshaker to process the video files and ...
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Trim the part of composition in After Effects along with its key frames
I want to trim a composition b/w the two Composition marker (1) and Composition marker (2):
You see there are many layers with different key frames and I want to trim everything which lies in the ...
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Batch splitting ProRes into equal-length segments
I routinely have to take ProRes footage and break it up into twenty minute segments of both ProRes and h.264. The computer I'm currently using to do this does has Premiere but not FCP. Any ideas on ...
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Transcoding from AVC to ProRes: Are there any negatives that would happen to the footage?
I've shot a short film and the files are using AVC codec within an .MP4 container. I'm wondering whether transcoding to say Quicktime (ProRes 422 HQ) would have any negatives that come with it.
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Exporting video layers for Premiere-DaVinci workflow
I am editing in Premiere, and sending an XML to a colourist working in DaVinci Resolve. We chose to colour after picture lock in order to reduce the colourist's workload. All of the tutorials I have ...
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Wave effect on bottom text
I'm trying to animate a text possibly for a logo, making it into a seamless loop. The effect I'm trying to achieve is that of a wave like rippling but only on a portion of the text.
I still want it ...
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What's the quickest, most efficient way of sending files/proxies to a remote editor (using Premiere) over a moderately slow internet connection?
Say that I have many gigabytes of files (4GB) and I want to send them to an editor who lives many miles away. The editor will create a new Premiere project file, edit a couple of sequences and send ...
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Archival storage for RAW video
I am filming with my BMPCC4k and figured out to be my workflow as follows:
Import Clips to harddrive.
Create Proxy's using Adobe Media Encoder.
Edit in Premiere Pro.
Then Color Grade in Davinci.
Then ...
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FCPX 10.1.3 - How Do I Copy Project?
Super-basic question, I know, and yes I'm a total noob.
I have a simple project in my timeline that I'd like to save (so I can go back to it in the future and make edits) but then move forward with ...
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How to obtain clipname while shooting?
Is there any kind of solution to obtain simultaneous the clipname while shooting? prehaps to read hanc and fanc of the SDI signal? I use a sony AX1 4K.
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Final Cut Pro X & Davinci Resolve workflow
I'd like to grade a Final Cut Pro X project with Davinci Resolve. Unfortunately my Final Cut experience is very limited and I don't understand how to get a consolidated project, linked to the original ...
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