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How to Edit a Documentary - Phil Ebiner's Process
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Step 1 - Import
Bring in all of your video footage and audio into your editor. If you have any photos, graphics, or music, bring those in too.
Step 2 - Organize
This is a very important step, especially for bigger projects. I create folders for audio, video, graphics, sequences, music, photos, and any other major category of assets. All of the clips go in their respective bin. In the video folder, I create sub-folders for different scenes or interviews that we shot .
Step 3 - Select
Create sequences for each scene and pull your favorite clips onto that timeline. For your interview, create a synced sequence with all cameras and audio synced. Then start cutting it down to the best clips, duplicating the previously-created sequence with each round of cuts.
Step 4 - Combine
When you have your best interview soundbites in one sequence and broll sequences with all of your best shots, create a new sequence and start combining everything. This is really where you start to get creative. Match broll to what the interviewee is saying. Move soundbites around to create a great story. Add photos or other broll assets if you have them. I'll sometimes add temporary music during this step to get an overall 'vibe' of the documentary while editing.
Step 5 - Cut
Once you have all of your interviews editing with broll and temporary music, start chopping it up. Create a new sequence every time you open up your project, in case you want to go back to yesterday's cut for reference or to undo. The cutting process can take many many rounds. I encourage you to show your cut to others to get their opinion before finalizing.
Step 6 - Color
After the picture is locked (i.e. the interviews and broll footage are in place), it's time to color correct and grade your footage. Color correction is making sure your footage looks natural. Color grading is giving your video a stylistic look. I use Adobe's Lumetri Color to do color correction and grading.
Step 7 - Add Final Music & Graphics
After you color, it's time to add music and graphics. If you are having an original score done for your documentary, you'll want the picture locked so that they can create the score based off your cuts. Note: If you aren't having an original score done, it might be better to add music during the cut step so that you can cut your video to the music. Step 7 is also when you add final graphics. I like adding graphics after color correction because the color of titles and other overlay graphics might change depending on the color correction and grading.
Step 8 - Perfect
Now you have everything together. Make sure your audio is leveled properly for both music and interviews/voice over. Double check that your color looks great.
Step 9 - Export
Once everything is as perfect as can be, it's time to export. How you export depends on how you will be distributing your documentary. If you are just showing it online, I usually export a high quality h264 file. For showing at film festivals and other screenings, you might have to export differently. Talk to the festival to find out what their specs are.
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General Editing Process:
Importing
Organizing
Selecting Footage
Combine Footage (Interviews + B-Roll)
Cutting Footage (May include music, etc)
Color Correction + Grading
Music
Graphics
I have been searching for a video like this EVERYWHERE! Thank you for posting!
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I found the idea of organizing the material by sequences very interesting. I used to put everything in a single sequence, and there separated the subjects by markers, but the idea of separating by sequences seems to be much better. Thank you for the tips!
"UnTiL wE aRe HaPpY wItH tHe CuT" 😂😂
Thank you for summarizing and posting the points. It's perfect. I added it to my steps in Trello. You have a new subscriber.
Thanks for sharing. I always like seeing everyone's work flow and learn from it.
Thank you for sharing your process.
Greetings from Brazil.
Besides very well shot footage, the right music is crucial I think. At least for me.
Withouth the right music the content can be very boring.
So I would say, selecting the right music is very time consuming and skill demanding work.
The best dam how to edit video ever!
Very nice explanation
Thank you for a terrific lesson, this has been very helpful.
Thank you so much. I like your udemy tutorials also. Your teaching system is really clean, understandable and nice.
You have purchased his course ?
I actually watched the full first ad. It was good.
I love you. Watching you from India
Duuude, this was awesome! So helpful with my first documentary edit
Very helpful info! It's great to see how other people work.
what is the step between sequences and final sequence? Just copy and paste all track to final sequence?
Thanks this was helpful
Super useful. Thanks for this 👍🏻
Great work Phil
Thank you
With so many clips and so much audio/interview material, how will the composer add music? How will he or she add music to sync with where you actually want it?
+Frank Anastasio that is what composers do. They worked off our final mixed cut. So they aren't actually seeing all the clips on the timeline. They just have the video and audio on one track
Video School Online , thanks for your quick response. More specifically, is the composer composing to time code in the places where you need the music? Or perhaps some other method?
thanks for this ❤️
Great overview, thanks!
When I look at 2:07 then I check my project again on premiere pro. Damn it, the difference is huge! Mine is nothing compared to the complexity of your video.
Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing
Nice video👍🏿. Highly appreciate it.
great organizing your edit but i was looking for how you get your voice recorded to syn in with the video clips you already shot. do you have a tutorial for that.
I am interested in your sequence approach. Are you creating a sequence for each component of your video and then when satisfied with that sequence copying that component sequence into your final sequence? Do you have a video explains that approach in more detail?
Hey Kevin - this video might help you a bit more (ruclips.net/video/LzNTrgH95PE/видео.html). But usually I just have one sequence for the whole project - unless it's a project longer than 10-15 minutes. Some people like using multiple sequences like you said - but I use sequences more for 'versioning'.
Video School Online thanks for your good job.
Hi, this was very helpful, and can you help me with the transitions that can used for a documentary film? if you can make a video for it it would be great.. Cheers
Very very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for posting this! It really helps a lot :)
Can you recommend a course with techniques and how to select music and how to add it into a video documentary
Hey. Thanks for this great video. I have several questions:
1) When you organize your footage, do you import all of the files you took? You don't make selections before importing them? I do the same thing, i import all the footages i got then make sequences for Broll according to scenes, however, lately I find this overwhelming. I know some editors who go through their files first before importing the footages to Premiere. Does it make a difference in terms of speed of the program if i import all?
2) How do you stay motivated when editing? I am documentary filmmaker myself and the most dreadful part of filmmaking for me is editing. I find myself restless when im sitting on my bum all the time. I know editing has to be a lot of hours on the screen, but do you take breaks, exercise or play games in between edits? Or whats your habit when editing?
Thank you so much!
i often do a 'paper' edit i.e. transcribe ALL the important dialogue onto word, print it out and then cut it up and lay it out on the floor. This way you can 'create your story' before you even get to importing your dialogue. Makes your story emerge MUCH quickly/clearly. Also work in 3 minute sequences that way it is not too overwhelming and when you get 'burnt out;' on a sequence you can jump to another one.
@@roslinsmith9342 this is basically the approach I'm taking right now, especially because I have about a dozen interviews.
@@PjPerez What were you editing?
@@iammilorex still editing! A documentary called "Parkway of Broken Dreams." Trailer here: ruclips.net/video/TdNesMNuqmw/видео.html
Thank you! That's soo helpful!
For interviews or footages in different parts of the video isn't it better to put the color correct effects on the master clip instead of multiple adjustment layer?
How do you take out film
This was really helpful!
Nice
nice video, thanks
Very useful thanks
thanks for it
Hi, will you be coming out with any new final cut training? namely X?
what is your editing app?
Thanks sir
Nice tips
wow that helped a lot thanks!
Very useful thanks.
how can merge these clips?????
thanks.
Can I see your final work result
what software do u use?
Renaming convention, transcode, import proxies.
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How do I use copyrighted music in my documentary?
Thank you so much! great video. and i have watched your film. it is so good. it made me cry and it made me happy. good job! greedings from Israel!
Thank you so much for watching my video. I really hoped it helped you. If you haven’t subscribed to the channel yet, please do so to get more videos like this one.
thnks.
+Елизавета Постол you're welcome. thanks for watching.
What editor did you use?
where is this documentary?
ruclips.net/video/GEM_clzwtEE/видео.html
can we see the documentary
yup - it's live now: ruclips.net/video/GEM_clzwtEE/видео.html
What kind of file do you use for export?
Paul Stam depends, I usually color correct and grade un DaVinci while the sound guy works in protools, so i export an Apple Pro Res 422 for davinci and make an OMF for Protools. Always export in highest quality posible if youre going to keep processing the file
I do documentry kind of vlogs
What application did you used?
Premiere pro...
How we get this type of software?
If you want a free alternative google Hitfilm 4 Express
Hope this is ok to comment here but if anyone is in need of background music for a project I’d be more than happy to help.
Thank you for the video. Can you please make a documentary on bare sex?
I can see there's BTS
Behind the Scene
@Video School Online ... Never put music/noise over speech. This should be lesson #1. There are many different accents of the English Language and this can't be helped. When a person is speaking with an accent (to me, obviously) and then some annoying noise is put over the speech, it becomes very difficult or impossible to understand. Remember, your purpose is ... to communicate, right.
Lesson #1a) Music is an Art and all Art depends on the aesthetics of the person consuming the Art. This means that there is no good Art and bad Art, there is only the Art that I like. (or, you like, obviously)
In other words *My music is wonderful and your music is shit* This is always true of all Art.
Again, remember your purpose is to communicate your information to a broad range of people, everybody. *Terminate the noise/music* ..
If it has music on it, it is entertainment, it is not a Documentary.