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The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide
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The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide

by Anthony Q. Artis, Anthony Q. Artis
July 2013
Beginner
296 pages
8h 54m
English
Focal Press
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“Automatic” Tape Logging

Logging tapes can be tedious and time-consuming. The process traditionally involves: (1) looking at the footage on a tape, (2) setting in and out points for each shot, (3) performing an edit to create a clip for that shot, and (4) labeling the clip. Then you do it all over again for EACH and EVERY shot on EACH and EVERY tape until you’ve logged all of the footage you shot.

Solution #1: Use Editing Software to “Automatically Log” Tapes

The latest versions of Final Cut Pro, Avid, and iMovie all have a great, relatively new feature called “scene detection” that automatically does steps 1 through 3 of the logging ...

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ISBN: 9780240809359