Editing Tips for when the Cinematographer SUCKS
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Hit me again Ike… and this time put some stank on it!
And their new standalone Hazy plugin!
Watch the finished short film, Witchfish: https://youtu.be/OcjXmEeZZ4M
Can I ask why you went with 23.98 vs 24? Sorry if that sounds like a dumb question, I’m very green!
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I use GIMP all the time for photo editing and have used Unsharp Mask to sharpen areas that need it. Many times I'll over sharpen a bit, then I'll soften (focus blur) just enough to get it to where I want it. But to your point, a lot of time can be spent on tweaking. Most of the editing tools aren't hammers, they are surgical instruments. Another great video, Kent.
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This is fascinating. The light flicker removal was interesting at about the 20:00 mark. When I saw the flickering, I actually thought you could have enhanced the flickering to give the scene an even stranger look - candles lighting on their own, lights flickering. It could have given the scene an even spookier effect. The scene could have even opened with some very brief, subtle, yet obvious, dramatic flickering and even some corresponding sound to indicate something strange is about to happen.
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This looks abysmal lol
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Hot tip: if you add a vignette in post, don't do it as a simple black overlay. Ideally you wanna use a blend mode like overlay or soft light for it since vignettes almost never linearly approach black. Overlay and softlight also effect the luma, chroma and hue of the underlying footage which is much more natural.
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Excellent. I really enjoyed watching this and learned quite a bit. Thank you for creating it for us.
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why am i watching this ? ( i am a cinematographer )
About me:
I'm Kent Lamm and I've been making short films for over 20 years, starting at age 11. I directed my first feature film, Bad is Bad, in 2010. Made for only $6,000, the film went on to reach over 7 million views and garner critical acclaim. More recently, my short film, Will "The Machine", screened and won awards at film festivals around the world. Released online in 2019, it reached over 3 million views. As an editor, I’ve done work for clients such as Apple, Netflix, and Beats by Dre.
Oh, I thought Creative Illumination was a reference to your shirt.
This was a fantastic video. I hope you do more of this step by step over the shoulder editing.
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00:00 Who shot this film anyway?
Who ever played the Mother-in-law did a fantastic job.
00:42 The Editing Timeline
01:13 Creative Elimination
"I'm my cinematographer."
Only reason I came here was to make that joke and he ruins it in the first 15 seconds of the video.
Oh well, I guess I'll learn something.
05:43 Overhauling the look in COLOR
17:20 Miscellaneous Secret Sauce / Tricks
As a request, I'd like to see how you edited a clunky back and forth scene that was too long....show us the before and after so we could see how much shortening a weak scene helps.
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6:20 he literally knocked the cheap L-Series knockoff off the counter😂
@stanleymakafuiA trick for minor flickering ... duplicate the footage, ofsset the timing by a frame, reduce opacity to 50%. In this case I would also add a power window.
That SHOULD reduce the flickering immensly.
If you have a proper deflicker tool, use that but in a pinch for light flickering ... this trick can work.
Side note: I started making tutorials as well and I am so jealous of people like YOU, Mr. Alex Tech, Casey Ferris, Ryan Conolly ... you all have such great camera presence in your tutorials!
My cat would Know which is the most expensive lens to target first.
He loves to test gravity with anything I or our guests leave out on high surfaces.
Loves to nudge tooth brushes into the toilet bowl.
SAME.
But also the wireless lav audio of dialogue for my project had terrible interference.
AND without consistent slating nor timecode I just spent the weekend manually syncing up disorganized audio to the shots which I'd already edited in a timeline. (I took breaks)
The auto-sync tool failed to work with the corrupted audio of the Rode WirelessGo lav that was recorded to camera, and I found no simple way in DaVinci Resolve for re-populating a manual sync of raw clips on one timeline into all the cut up shots on another timeline.
So, here I am dragging and dropping each bit of external audio under every individual 2 to 7 second shot in the edit (since I got the better boom audio later) and trying to find clear consonants to match up with actors mouths, sometimes realizing the reason it would get slightly off later was because it was sound from one of the other takes with the same words....
Not even to mention needing to reframe to crop out stuff like a mic in frame, which meant needing to similarly reframe subsequent shots to be consistent.
I'm telling myself the silver lining is this is like an ultimate challenge for learning to use this software I'm new to.
Thanks for the space to vent. Back to the grind now 🫡
Your actress did crazy well :)
Fantastic editing. Thanks for sharing your workflow.
Me I’m that DP. I’m learning haha. Easy there.
@spooled.pixelsAs both a DP and Editor, I'd rather be a DP since I can do a decent job, send it to any editor and it might still look good. I don't wanna suffer editing footage that looks bad that I can't salvage hahaha.
@이마크-r8eThis will help me when editing my own crappy videos for sure 😂😂
@adventureaheadphotoNice twist
@mrblue2Mmm she looks veryyyy familiar 🤨
@Fleeeep1Also breaking the axis with the sink scene
@nigeljoycey5644Absolutely incredible info and video! Ty, and BRAVO!!!
@2365FilmsllcForgive me father for i have sinned. I was so in love with my iPhone i decided to do a short film with it and left a poor colorist and editor in pain😢
@Giovanni-GiorgioThe dp on this is the worst to have ever been involved,... actually I AM the dp of this project! LMAO!!!!!
@GyvonJanteHello teacher, do you make advanced editing videos here?
@OnlineG9GameYou have so much wisdom.🔥
@DRB1980I burst out laughing when he revealed that he was the DP xD
@maxmeyer6395Can’t wait to see your next video!
@Animator-s5tLove this! thanks for sharing I switched to Davinci Resolve a few months ago due to $$. Premiere Pro was getting too costly. If you have any tips/tricks for Davinci, that would be great! I remember your course on sound design and use it for all my videos Thanks again! I love your work!
@AdventureswithDreadandFriendsThis was great, Kent! I learned a lot, even though I will never be as proficient in post as you are. Just goes to show that you really do "write" a film the third time in the edit!
@dorothyzbthanks to your video on sound design, the short film i made for homework made it to my college audiovisual awards thing !!!
@onyx_mangoWhy do you duplicate the layers instead of just adding lumetri colours effekts on one layer?
@FBarrera457I'm just a noob 'tuber, but this hit my feed just as I was about to start my latest edit. Super inspiring to help raise my game!
@soggybawsmotothank you, the discussion really help our small channel
@MemoriaVitaAdd a freeze frame effect and insert a narrator punchline
@cybWhat a garbage DP! LOL
@chrisw443I like your videos, but my cinematographer's eyes hurt everytime I see your overexposed webcam 😭😭
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@IZSIN222More cats!
@LeeHarris0:32 what the hell lmaoooo
@mashi_rsaI love this content! It is so insanely helpful to see you break down a film from beginning to end!
@dangerdelwHey! Just a quick question, why do you use layers for the power window effect, instead of applying multiple Lumetri effect and then create a mask? Does it affect the image quality or like lower the quality of the image? Just curious. You’re amazing sir! Love your vids
@francisTHEBEATSBeen following your channel for a while, really enjoy your videos but the number of commercials throughout this particular video made it difficult to watch.
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