Striping and Labelling a tape
For scanning to work, DV tapes should always be striped.Striping (also known as blacking or formatting) makes sure correct times codes are placed when DV tools scan DV tapes. Striping will also cause DV tools to 'see' an empty frame between each seperate video recording. This allows for better recognition of individual clips or 'shots' in the capture gallery.
To stipe a tape, a new one must be placed into a camera. Disable audio recording and place the lens cap on the camera, and set the camera in record mode, recording the entire length of the tape. Once completed, the tape has been striped and ready for recording. If tapes are not striped, the 'Scan DV Tape' function in DV tools may not work correctly.
Setting up an Edit Project
Using the Adobe tools, we are able to set up our edit projects.
Adobe's editing software is Adobe Premier Pro CS6. We began by starting up the programme and clicking 'New Project'.
Video
Display Format: Timecode
Audio
Display Format: Audio Sample there is a drop down box "Milliseconds"
Capture
Capture Format: Selecting DV or a HDV (The project should be set on HDV)
Capturing Footage
It is possible to capture digital video from a live camera or from a tape: you record it from the source to the hard disk. Premier Pro captures video through a digital port, such as FireWire or SDI, installed on the computer. Premier Pro saves captured footage to the disk as files, and imports the files into projects as clips.
A. Status area B. Preview C. Tabs D. Panel menu E. Transport controls
Specify Capture Settings
- With a project open, choose file > Capture and select the Settings tab.
- In the Capture Settings pane, click Edit.
- In the Capture Settings dialog box, select an option from the Capture Format menu
- Click OK
Set Capture Preferences
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Capture (Windows)
- Specify whether you want to cancel capture on dropped frames, report dropped frames, or generate a batch log file. This is an important step, as this can help with errors and blips in the project, and attempt to fix them.
- Specify whether to use device control timecode. If a device controlled is installled, Premier Pro can record the timecode supplied by the controlled instead of recording any timecode written to the source tape.
Select tracks for capture
- Open the Capture panel, select File > Capture.
- In the Capture panel, click the panel menu.
- Select Record Video, Record Audio, or Record Audio and Video, depending on the option desired. (The short film project needed both Audio and Video.)
Edit Decision List
An Edit Desicion List (EDL) is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list of teel and timecode date representing where each video clip can be obtained in order to match the final cut.
My offline edit became a problem, since I had another version of Premier Pro at home, which meant that I couldnt open my offline edit at college. It was exported to a rough draft but with the lack of title and credits. It was watchable; the whole group struggled with the audio problems but using certain ambience we were able to fix most of it.
How footage was assessed
A few faults cropped up with Anaesthetic. For example, the Boom Pole managed to get into many frames, but we were able to place a cinemascope over this, which overall gave the edit a better look.
The audio was also out of place, sometimes the Boom Mic was too far away. Tampering with the audio levels in Premier and Audition meaned that we were able to save alot of it.
Colour Correction was also used to sort out issues of external shots. Some seemed too bright and unusable, but they were fixed.
Organising the Edit Project
Once the footage was captured, I placed the footage into folders designated for each scene. The only problem was that the clips were not labelled straight away, meaning it was slightly hard to find out which ones were which, we were able to label them later on.
A website with free downloadable sound helped alot with our project, we found sound effects and music. By placing these effects into seperate folders on the edit project, it made it much easier for us to find the right sound for clips.
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