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Editing is the magic that takes the hours of field or studio footage you've collected and condenses them into your finished video program. But just because the result is magical, don't expect your editing experience to be riveting. During editing you'll endure:
- Long days in dark rooms
- Lots of Chinese food and pizza
- 1.5-3.5 hours of editing for every finished minute of video
- A first hour of thrills, followed by countless hours of boredom
What To Expect
The edit session takes place in a small darkened room with a producer and editor present. The director calls out the editing decisions and the editor works the editing system controls. The edit session usually lasts for two or more days, each day costing from $600 to $1200 USD, depending on the technology used.
Common Editing Terms
You'll make the editing process much more rewarding and educational for yourself if you know some common terminology. Among the more frequently used terms:
- Digitize
- The process of tranferring tape-based analog video footage to a hard disk digital medium.
- Non-Linear editing
- Assembling video clips in a random access fashion to create a finished video program.
- Frame
- A single video image, 30 of which make up one second of moving video.
- Clip
- A single sequence of contiguous video frames.
- Cut
- An immediate transition between two different video clips.
- Dissolve
- A simultaneous transition between two clips, with one fading off as the other fades on.
- Fade
- The appearance or disappearance of a screen image, usually to or from black.
- Layering
- The act of combining a single image or graphical frame with one or more additional frames to form a composite image.
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