Major Production: Post-Production: Keeping DownStage's Timeline Organised

The Basics with Premiere 

Now that production has ended, it is now time to begin post-production. However before I begun editing, Kate and I decided to jump from using the software Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere CC. The key reasons for this are due to Premiere seeming the more professional editing software, as it allows you to edit your production in more advanced and manual ways compared to Final Cut Pro. Therefore, I decided to look at tutorials shown on Lynda to first teach myself the basics of Premiere, so I can then learn the software as I continue to edit.

I eventually came across a basic editing video on Lynda, with the link shown below:
http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Basic-editing/434066/449447-4.html


Instead of exploring everything which I've learnt so far with Premiere which is generally quite basic, below are two key points that'll help keep the editing side of DownStage remain organised. I began to experiment the basics with Premiere with one of our Behind the Scenes videos which can be seen below:

Creating Subclips

Whilst watching the video on Lynda, it seemed important to maintain organisation by creating sub clips. This means by marking ins and outs on our clips from production and naming them, so that when looking at the timeline, you can clearly see which clips are what.

This can be seen above - I simply used the mark in and mark out tool to find roughly which part of a clip I wanted to include for our BTS video.

After finding which part of the clip I wanted to include for the video, I then created a sub-clip, naming it 'Cameraman Subclip'. The reasons for creating the sub-clip not only shows on the timeline which part is what without needing to view the timeline, it makes it easier to then organise folders and knowing which clips are in what folder. For example, below you can see that I've created a 'Cutaways' folder, which is where this sub-clip can be found.

Despite this BTS video being only one or two minutes long, sticking to this organisation will make editing DownStage much easier - due to the narrative having 37 scenes, it is almost guaranteed it would be difficult to find the exact clip you are looking for if sub clips and folders haven't been made.

I will continue to develop my experience with Premiere and post regularly with anything which I'm unsure of and will need to research. This will include sound engineering, colour correction, and maybe certain effects needed.