As soon as the shooting days were over, we immediately got into the edit. We edited the film at 1280x720 and we filmed it flat. Our export settings were in prores and our ideal deliverable was vimeo.
As Lex got to work with colour correcting and stabilising the footage I got to work with the sound. Background noise with any microphone is present, however small. So instead of using Final Cut Pro’s built in noise cancellation (which is pretty poor to be honest) I used Adobe Audition. I used audition before and it’s a great piece of software for pin-point audio editing. After importing the audio tracks, I captured a noise print. A noise print essentially captures a small section of the clip, in this case it’s the static noise in the background. After capturing the noise print, I selected the whole clip and applied the noise print. This took all the static out of the footage and sounded great. All the case now was to re-import it into final cut and press the ‘Synchronise clips’ button which automatically matches the clips with the Canon footage.
As Lex got to work with colour correcting and stabilising the footage I got to work with the sound. Background noise with any microphone is present, however small. So instead of using Final Cut Pro’s built in noise cancellation (which is pretty poor to be honest) I used Adobe Audition. I used audition before and it’s a great piece of software for pin-point audio editing. After importing the audio tracks, I captured a noise print. A noise print essentially captures a small section of the clip, in this case it’s the static noise in the background. After capturing the noise print, I selected the whole clip and applied the noise print. This took all the static out of the footage and sounded great. All the case now was to re-import it into final cut and press the ‘Synchronise clips’ button which automatically matches the clips with the Canon footage.
After showing the rough project to a first year, he enquired if it was a two camera shoot when in fact it was only a single camera shoot. I learnt this technique from Fergus Moloney when studying the previous unit (studio production). If you’re rendering at a lower resolution than what you shot at, you can zoom in without losing much quality. As I stated earlier, we recorded at 1920x1080, and we set the project properties to 1280z720 as it’s only going to be a small web video. This allowed myself to zoom in after cutaways to get a nice mid close up of the contributor, effectively getting more angles without recording any more footage.
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