This is very similar to my process! And the length of time it takes to make a vid (that is not for an exchange): also very similar! Numbers 2 and 3 are why things take so long for me: I have to go through every single thing and if I am making a vid about character x then I will clip every single frame with character x *just in case*. This is why I hate clipping, because clipping one 45 minute episode can take several days of work. This is also why I tend towards movie vids and short-lived tv shows and why I'm drawn to the edges of tv shows of characters without much footage, because I will do anything if it means I don't have to clip as much. But clipping is such an important part of my process, because I tend not to do show rewatches and I'm almost always in need of a refresher in terms of what is actually *there* in the footage. Clipping means that I am actually watching the footage. What is there? What can I use? What is not there? I don't understand vidders who are able to only clip what they need. Such envy! I don't/can't do that because I don't know what I need until I am actually looking at the timeline, especially because what I think I need is rarely what I actually need. (This is also why effects are difficult for me: what I think I need is rarely what I need so I might work on modifying a clip only to realize that it doesn't work in the context of the vid AT ALL.)
I've done the spreadsheet lyrics thing a bit, but usually only as a reminder to myself before I have all the clips and a timeline in place. (Or this for Losing Our Religions, god, that project.) Mostly, though I just outline in my head and/or "outline on the timeline" by putting in place holder clips that say "this is what this section is" and then slowly chipping away and removing them as I edit. Vidding isn't (usually) animation, but my timeline outline is similar to what an animatic is for animation. It's just a version with placeholders to give an idea of the arc and pacing of the vid.
And I need to do subtitles, I do, but when I finish the vid I just want to be DONE. Secret: every time I make a vid for an exchange I don't actually have the final version with my name on it made until, oh, at best the night before. Because I already had to export and post one version (the anon version) and at that point my head and my heart are both just screaming DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE LET'S NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, OK?
I use: Adobe Premiere & AfterEffects, Mac the Ripper, and mpeg streamclip. iTunes for making playlists and either googledocs or open office for any spreadsheet times.
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Re: Tell us about your editing workflow/process!
Date: 2014-03-02 01:26 am (UTC)I've done the spreadsheet lyrics thing a bit, but usually only as a reminder to myself before I have all the clips and a timeline in place. (Or this for Losing Our Religions, god, that project.) Mostly, though I just outline in my head and/or "outline on the timeline" by putting in place holder clips that say "this is what this section is" and then slowly chipping away and removing them as I edit. Vidding isn't (usually) animation, but my timeline outline is similar to what an animatic is for animation. It's just a version with placeholders to give an idea of the arc and pacing of the vid.
And I need to do subtitles, I do, but when I finish the vid I just want to be DONE. Secret: every time I make a vid for an exchange I don't actually have the final version with my name on it made until, oh, at best the night before. Because I already had to export and post one version (the anon version) and at that point my head and my heart are both just screaming DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE LET'S NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, OK?
I use: Adobe Premiere & AfterEffects, Mac the Ripper, and mpeg streamclip. iTunes for making playlists and either googledocs or open office for any spreadsheet times.