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Videos on post-production workflow

If you're a regular reader of the DigitalBasin you will have no doubt encountered my rantings about Workflow (such as this one) Too often mistaken for just another vacuous buzzword, Workflow - and more particularly the idea of customizable, flexible, project-specific workflow - is one of the cornerstones of the digital cinema evolution.

In this vein I stumbled across a fantastic online video series from ExpertVillage that examines in detail post-production workflow components and processes. Presented by US-based editor Travis Johns the series breaks down each stage in post; from the management of files to the end delivery. From the highly pragmatic to the difficult art of staying creatively motivated over long projects.

The whole series is well worth a watch. In particular this one below examining file management in post-production should be compulsory viewing as the number of 'so-called 'professional' editor's I know who couldn't organize a f&%k in a brothel let alone organize files in an  Edit session is quite disturbing. Every minute spent on file management is 10minutes saved for being creative.


If I have one crticism of the series it's the overview blurb for the site which opens with a statement that i just couldnt look past. The blurb starts with "The development of film came alongside the rise of America as a world empire." World Empire...?At what point did America become a 'World Empire'? The British made an empire colonising a good proportion of the known world. As did the Spanish in the New World. The Belgians gave it a good go in Africa and the French punched high and mighty from Prussia to Canada to North Africa. But if my knowledge of history serves America is rather exempt from the Empircal colonising club. Is this just historically misguidence? Linguistic misunderstanding? Or just an over-inflated sense of national self-importance? Now if the blurb had read "The development of film came alongside the rise of Team America as World Police" I could have had a good laugh recalling vivid cinematic images of puppet sex scenes....

Posted at 12:00AM Aug 04, 2008 by Mike Jones in video  |  Comments[2]