Chapter 1. Shooting with Editing in Mind

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Editing is the process of assembling the acquired footage to tell a story. For this to successfully occur, you’ll need footage that matches the technical and artistic needs of your project.

Your editing stage actually begins when you fire your first shot on your DSLR camera. Once you’ve started gathering footage, the ideal project settings for video editing quickly get locked in. As such, we think it’s important to always double-check that what’s being shot is what you actually want to acquire.

In addition, it’s important to ensure that you are getting great audio. It’s very easy to overlook audio in the ...

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