Holding the K key down and then holding the L or J key down provides slow motion forward or reverse playback. If the J key is tapped to speed up reverse playback, tapping the L key will slow reverse playback down. If the L key is tapped a few times to speed up forward playback, tapping the J key will slow down playback. The more times the J or L keys are tapped the faster the video plays back. J is backward playback, L is forward playback, and K stops playback. The onscreen jog wheel and shuttle controls in the Canvas and Viewer windows are adequate, but the J-K-L keyboard commands are more efficient. Final Cut Pro offers several methods to scrub through video and there are useful USB devices that can aid in quickly locating that special scene. Quickly scrubbing through video clips to locate the precise portion of a clip to use in a project is a common event for video editors. This technique may not work equally well for all projects, but if you think about how the project is organized and how it can be broken down into smaller bites, it can definitely help make editing faster and more fun. This helps finish event projects more quickly, allowing you do do more events per year. A few title and style changes later the project is ready for output. Import the new footage and use replace edits to replace the old material with the new material. So for the next wedding (or other event) project open up the previous Final Cut Pro project and save a copy. Once a project is set up this way it can be used as a template for similar projects. Changes made to the individual sequences are automatically updated in the master sequence. In most cases, only the component sequence needs to be adjusted. Another benefit is when changes are made. When working with a group of editors, each sequence can be assigned to a different editor and combined by a supervising editor, again creating a more efficient workflow. This can streamline the editing process, as each component sequence or “object” can be edited more quickly with greater focus. This can also work for Birthdays, Retirements, Bar/Bat Mitvahs, Roasts, etc.īecause Final Cut Pro treats sequences as if they were video clips, create individual sequences for each discrete component or section of the project, and combine the component sequences together in a final master sequence. So, shoot one wedding and edit it together and you have a template for the next wedding. What’s nice about this is that most weddings pretty much follow the same format. The reception can be broken down to: Arrival and Mingling of Guests, Arrival of the Newlyweds, The Dinner, Toasts, First Dance, Cutting of the Cake, Garter Toss, Bouquet Toss, More Dancing and Fun, Guest Interviews, The Departure of the Newlyweds, and Post Reception Madness. Pre-ceremony can be divided into: Preparations and Set up, the Newlyweds and Wedding Party Getting Ready and Photos. A wedding can typically be organized into several distinct sections:Īdditionally there could be a pre-wedding party where the families meet. Let’s look at shooting a wedding as an example. So how do you break a video project down into smaller reusable chunks?Įach project type determines how well this technique works, but it can be especially beneficial to event videographers. By dividing a project up into discrete sections it can make the project easier to manage. Take a larger project and break it down into smaller reusable chunks. Now, at first, that may sound a lot like programming and I did steal the term from object-oriented programming but the core idea is the same. This episode I’m discussing object oriented editing.
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