About the Edit | Suspended in Space

A brief look at the post production of "Suspended In Space", a short documentary film I recently edited.
Let me know if you want further elaboration on anything I talked about. I'm still new to recording myself, and I tend to ramble quite a bit and have to cut around that a lot, which makes it difficult to succinctly form full thoughts in this video... I'm sure there are things I can do a better job of explaining in text here.

[@joelsomerville]

Lovely film, great breakdown. Thanks man!

[@mitchellcookk]

Well done on the edit! When I first watched the film I loved that opening sequence. The entire film was very well cut! Thanks for the breakdown.

[@ethan_edmunds]

Love the breakdown! Some great insights!

[@laurinbettermann]

so cool! love to see more of these breakdowns.

[@johnsospencer]

Wow, another assembling of the dream team: cinematography, drone pilot, editor, direction, color, and sound. Looks like everyone was swinging for the fences on this project. I love the breakdowns. Keep them coming!

[@tristanNC]

Damn this was rlly cool, your insight and perspective was rlly interesting to hear

[@codylarosa]

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[@khakees.official]

Amazing walkthru !!☺️ I wonder how u guys capture the crazy action ski shot??

[@rivirsawyer]

So good. Loving these break downs you're doing, and another tremendous film by you and the team. Cool to see you are cutting in Resolve now. I have been slowly making the transition, and as amazing as it is I am for sure feeling the short comings in comparison on a few things. Would love to hear how your workflow has changed and ways that you've managed to keep consistency switiching platforms in a video one day!

[@christianwhittemore9748]

Thank you! Resolve is awesome for the many forward-thinking features built in; I specifically like how the inspector panel works and color integration, I was never able to get into Pr's Lumetri system. Resolve is very fast to implement tweaks like optical flow, stabilization, zooms, flips. I dislike the inflexibility of the interface versus AVID and Pr, but I've mostly gotten over it. Also their H264/5 encoder is... wonky. I find that Adobe Media Encoder is more consistent/transparent for getting great H264 outputs, so for final H264's I usually re-encode a resolve-created ProRes in Media Encoder.
That would be a cool idea for a video, will keep that in mind.

[@dreamvision_media]

U CRUSHED DUDE

[@Codywpreston]

Incredible work! - Who did the sound on the project?

[@christianwhittemore9748]

Defacto sound! They've sound designed many projects I've cut and they're the best. They "get it" from their first pass every time.

[@robinmunshaw9255]

Great breakdown! I'd love to know the tools and parameters you use to add the camera shake - I've been trying to achieve a similar effect in AE with expressions and Sapphire's Shake tool, but can't seem to get it to look organic like you have.

[@christianwhittemore9748]

for sure! I used the Resolve OpenFX plugin "Camera Shake". You need the Studio version of Resolve to use it. These values are taken from one of the interior cabin shots. Outside ones had greater intensity in certain values, but this might be a good starting point for you. But every shot needs individual tweaking. drive.google.com/file/d/1iY3EYwc66yXkpHeZJIsMEagwDx5JShg0/view?usp=sharing

[@robinmunshaw9255]

@@christianwhittemore9748 Awesome thanks!

[@heavyplateenjoyer]

Wow, wow and wow. I feel like i could learn so much from you. Do you have courses?

[@christianwhittemore9748]

I do not, but hopefully I can take some time to create more videos like this. Let me know if there's anything you'd be interested to learn about.