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Music Video Workflow class at NAB

Are you attending the Post|Production World conference at this years NAB next week? Interesting in music video workflow? In addition to the Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors class that I am teaching I’ll also be leading one called Music Video Workflow on Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. This will be a useful class for editors who are new to the unique challenges of editing multiple take music videos or to the production person / company to offers music videos as part of their turnkey production services.

We will cover a lot of music video related topics in the class and how best to work with the many different options and techniques throughout post-production. Topics will include preparation for the shoot, preparing files for the edit, shooting off-speed for that realtime/slow motion effect, syncing footage, various offline editing techniques, going to online as well as mastering. Keep in mind that offline these days doesn’t necessarily mean low resolution footage that has to be online with high resolution footage (though that will be discussed) but rather offline from the creative editing phase of a music video job.

Grouping and Multiclipping

One import topic that will be discussed in depth is the idea of grouping clips, as Avid Media Composer terminology goes, and multiclips - Final Cut Pro’s terms. Why group clips in a music video edit vs. the “stacking” method of dropping each take of the performance of a song on a new video layer? Looking at a timeline can help illustrate the point:

A 22 take music video performance synced and stacked

The same 22 takes grouped into a Final Cut Pro multiclip

Now which of those timelines look more manageable and easy to edit? When you have all of your music video performance takes grouped together into one clip you are then able to step through all of the angles, one at a time or use some of the software’s various multicam features to edit. Media Composer and Final Cut Pro are both very similar in their grouping / multiclipping operations but there are some differences in how you make the group/multi-clips and how you interact with them once created. Both will be discussed in the class. As will the concept of auxiliary timecode which is a features of most non-linear editing applications that helps make the grouping of clips possible.

If you can’t make the NAB Post|Production World session then check out this article I wrote about Auxiliary Timecode for Studio Daily last year. It’s a quick primer on how this works but I can assure you that it’s much easier to understand when you walk through a live demo.

I hope to see you at the Music Video Workflow class.

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Wish I could be there, is a video or notes going to be posted after NAB?

Posted by preposterous  on  04/08  at  12:05 AM

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Hey Scott,

Is there going to be a webinar or DVD of your music video workflow presentation available soon?  I had to miss NAB, but I’d pay for that info.  I bet others would, too.  Please let us know.

Thanks,
Reid

Posted by reidvv  on  04/17  at  06:36 AM

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Hi, Scott

I second reidvv’s desire for either a webinar or DVD.  I am very curious to see a good music video workflow for FCP.  I have a pretty nifty one for AVID, but not for FCP.  Would be willing to pay also.

You blog is a great resource.  Thanks a million!

Posted by EditCorrect  on  05/18  at  07:21 PM

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