Rough Cut Completed
Added 2016-05-14 14:31:25 +0000 UTCThe first stage of my paranoia has been alleviated: all the pieces fit together and the video makes sense. It runs about 11: 30, a good duration considering the script was 14 pages. Now comes the hard part.
The workflow for this episode is unusual because after a couple of intro scenes, most of it was shot with a different kind of camera. Before proceeding with VFX, I had to color-grade that part of the video in advance. I did this last night and BOY, it looks good.
In the picture, the upper panel shows the edit with the ungraded footage in the top track (pale green). It has lots of tiny cuts which are actually intricate speed-ramps within continuous shots. The lower panel shows that footage replaced with a graded version in orange.
As it stands, all of the stuff at the beginning requires elaborate VFX, most of the orange stuff needs some corrective VFX work and the gaps (where you see blue clips of voiceover) have to be filled with full-on traditional animation and motion graphics :O
14 days to do all that + sound.
HERE WE GO!
Comments
Premiere is a fine editing program, but I've always found Avid much more robust and customizable. It works much faster and crashes less frequently. Mainly, it's the multi-cam/angle tools, which are very important for music videos and any kind of long-form show. Premiere is awful for that, but Avid handles it very well. I wouldn't have a problem editing a feature film in Premiere, I suppose. One thing Premiere has that Avid needs is the ability to nest a sequence inside another sequence. That would be handy!
Captain Disillusion
2016-06-07 18:41:42 +0000 UTCIs there a particular reason that you prefer to use Avid Media Composer over Adobe Premiere Pro? I would think that since your videos are so VFX heavy, you would prefer the workflow offered in Premiere, since it is so tightly integrated with After Effects and Photoshop. I have been using Premiere for quite a while, but also want to learn Avid. How do you like it?
Zach Hunter
2016-06-07 15:04:30 +0000 UTCI'm almost done binge watching all your videos from your YouTube channel, so this can't come at a better time. Your humor and timing caused me to patronize your works. You deserve so much more recognition! Btw: this is my birthday month, so I subscribed to you channel as a gift to myself of a bit more Cap'n D's awesome content, more often. I hope you reach your goal, soon!
Brian Coule
2016-05-16 06:18:17 +0000 UTCCan't wait O_O
Alex LΓ©vesque
2016-05-15 18:45:36 +0000 UTC
