Behind The Recap - Screenshot Timelapses of Editing (and 2 new videos)

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I recently began capturing the entire editing process of my projects to shed some light on the unseen work that goes into video production. I figured some of you might be interested in this kind of BTS content, as I am always curious about how others create their work as well. If anyone has any behind the scenes content of their own, I'd love you to share it!

Here are the first two "Behind The Recap" timelapses, paired with the actual videos that were being edited:

A little background on the content: the "Rage Rinse Repeat" series follows GrooveBoston (http://www.facebook.com/GrooveBoston) through their 'Visceral' tour across colleges and universities in the Northeast.

Episode 6 covers two shows in two days - Salve Regina in Rhode Island and WestConn in Connecticut - and highlights the production at the WestConn show (which had 7 lasers).

Episode 7 covers the following weekend, which was GNARLY to to shoot, covering St. Peter's University in NJ, Fitchburg State in MA and then back to NJ at Seton Hall on the third day. This is a bit of a longer piece (~7 minutes), but is one of the better videos I've ever made (in my opinion).

Please let me know what you think of the timelapses or the final videos. I can also answer any questions about exactly what is happening at any given moment i the timelapses.

Thanks for taking a look!

-Chase

 
Pretty sick edits dude... I didn't check to see if you had info on the actual Vimeo pages but just wondering

What did you shoot your clips with? like how many cameras, lenses etc...

Also one of my biggest things I noticed was the color coding of clips, which I haven't gotten into, but really need to, how did you do it? Organize by day, event, interviews, types of shots? I know it works differently for everyone but just wondering what your method was because there's a shit ton of different clips in there.

Also last but certainly not least how did you pick this job up as a videographer/editor for this whole production? Just curious as to how that culminated.

Thanks also for showing the behind the scenes, actually pretty helpful. Major +k
 
Damn dood. watching the bts footage was wild. your workflow is something that ive never seen. dealing with all that raw and meta data has gotta be quite a bitch. the edits are getting better and better as they go. ep. 6 was fire. good work dude
 
Thanks! Both of these were shot entirely with one HMC150 sprinkled with a few GoPro shots, everything operated by me.

For organization/color coding, I've kind of bounced around a bit from project to project. In Episode 6, I individually named each clip and colored them accordingly, but in Ep 7 that would have taken WAY too long to do. Like you said, it really comes down to what works best for you. When I used to edit in FCP7, I would individually name every shot and subclip and then display my entire list of shots conditionally sorted by: support (glidecam, handheld, tripod, slider, etc.), location (stage right, stage left, etc.), scene (headline DJs, crowd, lobby, etc.), and then name (ex: 'swoop up right over girl in green shirt'). This worked very well for me for years...until switching to Premiere Pro.... PP does not sort conditionally. When sorting clips (to my knowledge), you can only sort by one criteria at a time. As a result, I have moved more toward a folder/bin sorting structure that emulates the same organizational system, but way less efficiently.

The bins I create for these videos generally consist of the same handful of folders and then add or subtract a few depending on individual projects. I'll use RRR Ep 7 as an example. This is roughly the folder setup I created per day/event.

- BTS

- Glidecam

- Tripod

- Interviews

- Night

- DJ Detonate / Max Baun (depending on the event)

- Stage

- Stage Right

- Stage Left

- Pit

- In Crowd

- Right

- Center

- Left

- Tripod

- Right

- Center

- Left

Then, within the actual folders, I used colors to identify the type of shot / content. For these projects:

Orange = BTS

Pink = Headline w/ DJs as the focus

Blue = Crowd

Green = Opening set

Purple (in Ep 6) = VIP Crowd

Dull Blue = default color / I didn't change the color (seen in the first half of Ep 6 and all GoPro shots)

So the folders are used to find the shots and the colors are used primarily to keep track of them on the timeline. I personally am very visually driven, so segmenting by color helps keep track of how the piece is coming together to make sure there is a healthy balance of different "types" of shots.

I took a little initiative and reached out to GB last summer about the idea of possibly creating a cohesive video platform for them. We met and did some brainstorming, which ultimately resulted in their concept of the "Rage Rinse Repeat" series.

 
Thank you so much for your response, I just saw it, albeit ridiculously late. Still insanely helpful though! I know what you mean with FCP having conditional/multiple criteria to sort or filter by, and PP totally lacking anything of the sort. (I don't know what that is actually called) But personally that's my biggest peeve with PP and any folder organization system it seems with anything on windows or mac. I do more photography than video, but I encounter the same problem, I wish I could add tags or something to my media in anything, so that I could search for my work in various folders (I organize things by YY_MM_DD_EVENTNAME to keep things chronologically accurate and easy to find) by a simple filter to find things that all match multiple tags. For example search under the criteria of 'landscapes' and 'sunsets' so that I could find all of those pictures that match that exactly, instead of digging through every damn folder. Or maybe I'm fucking retarded and just don't know how, or maybe I was just spoiled with FCP and tagging media or anything in my computer is just too much to ask for from microsoft.
 
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