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Editing Workflow

There are several steps that an editor needs to take when working on a project, and they need to be taken well so that the work is carried out at the best quality and best ability of the editor.

 It is always good for an editor to have a good workflow, as this will save so much time and effort in the long run, when carrying out this workflow becomes the standard way that you carry out an edit. Doing this will also cause you less stress inn your production, which can also help your editing, as when you are stressed about it, there may be some things that you miss during the edit. All of this being carried out is what will create a better post-production experience.

 Through some research into editing workflows, I found that there are 7 steps to the process, which when carried out, check all the boxes of what an editor needs to do. 

 1. Media Ingestion and Management - Copying your video media from your camera to your computer. You need to have an easy to understand, readily searchable, and concise file system for your footage and other media files. 

 2. Organisation - Organising the media on your computer to prepare for editing. This will make it easier to locate the clips that you are using.

 3. Importing - Importing your footage into the editing software of your choice. It is also a good idea to place the clips of film and audio into bins that relate to a specific scene, so that they do not get mixed up and can be found easily.

 4. Editing - Editing the video to picture lock. As mentioned in a previous blog, it is better to create several versions of the edit, all clearly labelled, as this will help you to spot anything wrong.

 5. Colour Grading - Optimising your coloured footage for quicker integration back into editing software. It is also better to complete putting the footage together before you go back and start colour grading, because then you are able to focus more on that area of the edit, instead of doing colour grading and editing at the same time.

 6. Special effects - Optimising your  modified footage for quick integration back into editing software. Again, it is better to do this when you have finished editing the footage together, as you will then be able to see how the effects look with the whole film, not just a few scenes.

 7. Final Delivery - formats, resolutions, and bit-rates and how to future proof. You will also need to allow time for the film to export, because if you have some special effects in the film, or you shot on high quality cameras, then the footage will take longer to export

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