Lesson Info
16. Editing In Passes: Intro
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
The lesson discusses the concept of working in passes when editing videos. The instructor explains that working from rough to fine allows for the story to be laid out in its entirety before getting into the details. This approach helps to safeguard against running out of time and ensures that there is a watchable project even if it is not fully polished.
Q&A:
Q: What is the benefit of working in passes when editing videos? A: Working in passes allows for the story to be laid out in its entirety and helps prevent running out of time or focusing too much on details too quickly.
Q: What is the general workflow for working in passes? A: The workflow starts with roughing out the story and the big events, then gradually getting more detailed, working on audio, and adding finishing touches like graphics.
Q: Why is it important to have a watchable project even if it is not fully polished? A: Having a watchable project ensures that there is at least something that makes sense as far as the story goes and provides a safeguard against unfinished work.
Q: How does working in passes help in terms of time management? A: Working in passes allows for the story to be laid out in its entirety, which means that even if time runs out, there will still be a watchable project that makes sense.
Q: What is the risk of getting too detail-oriented too quickly when editing? A: Getting too detail-oriented too quickly can lead to spending excessive time on a small portion of the project and potentially not completing the rest of the video.
Lessons
Class Introduction
01:14 2Hardware
01:34 3DaVinci Resolve Overview
02:34 4Edit Page
02:42 5Cooking a Story
01:48 6The Ingredients For the Story
04:47 7Media Pool - The Pantry
05:25 8Source Viewer - Inspecting the Ingredients
02:15The Cutting Board
07:00 10Timeline is Where the Story is Made
02:51 11Controlling Clips on the Timeline
02:55 12Control the Clip Order
01:55 13Trimming Clips
02:28 14Control the Timing of the Story
04:26 15Setting In's & Outs in the Source Viewer
05:04 16Editing In Passes: Intro
02:30 17Edit Pass #1: Rough Cut
13:45 18Edit Pass #2: Smooth It Out
13:33 19Edit Pass #3: Get Picky
13:19 20Audio
12:29 21Basic Titles
05:54 22Rendering
04:53 23Further Learning
02:27Lesson Info
Editing In Passes: Intro
Now that we've learned basically how to get around in the edit page a little bit, let's take a look at the actual editing workflow and kind of how this all practically goes together. And I'm gonna tell you about one of my favorite techniques for editing videos or actually doing anything that's creative and that's called working in passes. The general idea is this, you work from big to small, so you work from rough to fine. So the first thing that we're gonna do is rough out our story in the great big events that happen from beginning to end. And we're gonna do that all the way through. And after we have our story roughed out then we're gonna go back again and start to work on a little bit more details and make sure that it kind of flows together and that it feels nice. And after we go through from beginning to end like that then we can go through and get really detailed and really picky about all the little minutiae things. The reason that we work this way is because you know how it is...
with doing creative stuff. Sometimes you might just run out of time and this is kind of a way to safeguard yourself. One from only having half of your movie done instead of the whole thing done in at least some kind of watchable form. And it also helps you from getting too, like, detail-oriented too quickly because what'll happen sometimes is you'll get really excited about like your opening sequence and you'll get these two or three shots like just perfect and you'll spend 15 hours on that. And then you'll have to either turn in the project or, you know, the client will come and look at it, or you'll just run outta time for whatever reason, and you'll only have like the first minute of your video done. So working from rough to fine. from big to small lets us make sure that we always have the story in its entirety pretty much laid out. And then the more time that we have to spend on it just the better and better it will get. So what we're gonna do is rough out our edit in the just the big events that happen, whatever like basically the story is that we want to tell. Then we'll go through and get a little bit more detailed and a little bit more detailed. Then we're gonna work on audio and then we're gonna do all the little finishing touches, graphics, and all of that kind of cool stuff. But really quickly we're gonna have a watchable project that if we need to call it done it's at least something that makes sense. As far as the story goes.
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Ratings and Reviews
Stan
This is a great class! Probably my favorite Creativelive class so far. I've been a fulltime photographer for 13 years now, I guess it's about time I get back into video. I love that Resolve has a free version to learn on. The pace of this class was perfect, can't wait to watch the rest of Casey's DaVinci classes.
Simona Geneva
Thanks to Casey Faris for the interesting study material. I have been looking for a creative life course for DaVinci Resolve for a long time and I am very happy that one has already been created on your platform. I look forward to the other pieces. Thanks again for the shared knowledge!
user-ada623
I've seen many DaVinci tutorials that seem to just make things more confusing but Casey's tutorial really took a simple step-by-step explanation to really show how powerful and yet simple it is to use Davinci. The tools Casey covered in this course gave me the confidence to edit the ton of videos I have collecting dust on my hard drive. Great job Casey and a great sense of dry corny humor...lolol highly recommended!!