Chapter 1Project Organization

Project organization is not sexy, but it becomes the strong foundation that allows the rest of the process to work well. In this chapter, editors will discuss organization at the project level and the bin level, organization of sequences and versions, and even timeline organization.

Organization is inherently a big part of many editors’ approach to a scene, so there is some overlap between this chapter and Chapter 2: Approach to a Scene. This is because of the nature of the editing process and of the specific methodologies of some editors. For example, the creation of selects reels can be seen as both “organizing” and as “an approach.”

This integration of the two ideas of “organization” and “approach” shows just ...

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