Prepare for the edit

 

 

 

Striping and Labelling Tapes

 

The process

To stripe a tape you need to insert a new DV tape in your camera. Turn down or turn off the audio and place the lens cap on the camera, you then set the camera to record mode and record the entire length of the tape. When this is done the tape has been striped and is ready for recording.

Labelling is basically nameing the tape. For example if you were filming for more than a day and need more than one tape you would label your first tape as 'Tape 1 Day 1'.

Why stripe and label?

Striping a tape insures correct time codes when DV tools scans your DV tapes, striping will also cause DV tools to see an empty frame between each seperate recording, this will allow regonition of individual clips or shots when capturing your footage.

Labelling a tape is basically for organastion purposes, if you fail to label your tapes and have more than one with footage on it you won't know which tape is which, this can cause a lot of problems.

 

How footage was captured

 

The footage was captured by connecting a firewire cable to a computer, i then turned on the camera and set it on VCR mode.

 

I then clicked on file then capture.

 

A capture windown then appeared so i clciked on AVi.

 

I then logged the clips to where i was saving the footage.

 

I then labelled the tape.







I then clicked on scene detecter, then i clicked on record then clicked clicked on play.

 

 

EDL (Edit Desicion List)

 

An edit decision list (also known as an EDL) is used post production, an EDL contains an ordered list of reel and timecode data representing where each video clip can be obtained to conform the final cut.

 

How was footage assessed?

 

Footage was assessed by basically sitting down with the footage and watching through each clip and looking at what worked and what didnt work, we looked at each angle used and looked at things like audio to see if there was anything that needed tweaking. We looked at things like whether the camera moved in a shot and basically decided what we could use and what we couldnt.

 

How was the edit organised?

 

I organised the footage by making 'bins' and sorted them into days and scenes, for example i had all shots made in the first day of shooting and called it 'bin 1 day 1' i then checked the script and looked at the clips needed in each scene and made a bin for each scene. For example i named the bin for the first scene 'Scene 1' this made the edit process a lot easier because my clips were all organised into bins.