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I'm curious as to what the workflow is for everybody in this forum. I'm realizing that my workflow is quite simple and I tend to spend most of my creative energy on getting the flow right, not worrying about special effects. Although I must admit that a lot of that might be because I'm not good at getting specials looking good without the process leading to exhaustion, which zaps my creativity.
I also know I need to break out of my habits so I'm looking to explore some of your ideas.
Anyhow here's how it goes for me 99% of the time.
Just about all of my transitions are straight cuts or crossfades. The length of the crossfade overlap depending on the pace of the production. If it's moving fast enough I go with straight cuts. I rarely use any fancy transition. I find it hard to use them without them getting in the way of the story telling.
The only FX I use is usually a little color correction. Maybe a little unsharp mask of the original video will hold up to it.
For the audio I usually compress with one of my old Ultra Funk compressor plugs and then I limit the output audio track with a Waves Ultralimiter, setting the output level to -9dB since after compressing and limiting the resulting output will be much louder than a commercial DVD. -9dB usually puts it in the ballpark of most DVD's. If there is a lot of camera noise or tape noise I'll lightly apply a bit of Sony Noise Reduction 2.0. No more than 6dB noise reduction or the resulting sound begins to bother me. I can't put my finger on it exactly but it gets a processed sound. Sometime the cure can be worse than the disease!
It's kind of funny that we have this elaborate NLE's with all of these features and I have a feeling that many people like me only use the same handful of features. Of course every now and then I do dig in deeper and it's nice to have the power under the hood when you need it.
So how does a production usually go for you?
I also know I need to break out of my habits so I'm looking to explore some of your ideas.
Anyhow here's how it goes for me 99% of the time.
Just about all of my transitions are straight cuts or crossfades. The length of the crossfade overlap depending on the pace of the production. If it's moving fast enough I go with straight cuts. I rarely use any fancy transition. I find it hard to use them without them getting in the way of the story telling.
The only FX I use is usually a little color correction. Maybe a little unsharp mask of the original video will hold up to it.
For the audio I usually compress with one of my old Ultra Funk compressor plugs and then I limit the output audio track with a Waves Ultralimiter, setting the output level to -9dB since after compressing and limiting the resulting output will be much louder than a commercial DVD. -9dB usually puts it in the ballpark of most DVD's. If there is a lot of camera noise or tape noise I'll lightly apply a bit of Sony Noise Reduction 2.0. No more than 6dB noise reduction or the resulting sound begins to bother me. I can't put my finger on it exactly but it gets a processed sound. Sometime the cure can be worse than the disease!
It's kind of funny that we have this elaborate NLE's with all of these features and I have a feeling that many people like me only use the same handful of features. Of course every now and then I do dig in deeper and it's nice to have the power under the hood when you need it.
So how does a production usually go for you?
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