Post Production
What is Post Production?
What is Post Production?
- The editing stage
- Organizing footage
- Adding transitions
- Putting scenes in order
- When you organize your footage before you begin to edit; this process is called a Paper Edit
- A paper edit is when you go over your footage and edit the film on paper, making notes of what takes are usable and how long they are on for
- A paper edit is generally used in Documentary films because it helps organize the footage for the editor so when they go to edit, they have it to reference
- When you shoot your footage, it is shot on a specific aspect ratio. That ratio determines what is seen on the screen. It is the dimensions of the width and height of the frame
- 720 x 480
- 1280 x 720
- 1920 x 1080
- Frame Rate is how many frames per second is being filmed.
- North America and Europe use two different frame rates.
- NTSC (National Television System Committee) = North America
- PAL (Phase Alternation Line) = Europe
- NTSC Frame Rate
- 30 Frames Per Second – 29.97 (technical)
- 24 Frames Per Second – 23.98 (technical)
- PAL Frame Rate
- 25 Frames Per Second
- Frame Rate is important when reading your time code.
- 00:00:00:00 (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) – Non Drop Frame
- 00;00;00;00 (hours;minutes;seconds;frames) – Drop Frame
