Footage editing

The edit day, I was focus on footage taken south of Paris. Scanning some notes also as my back-up – that’s the description of editing tools I was using in bits of my videos. I am planning a lot with tempo (speed); reversing, slowing or speeding up some cuts gives quite good effects.

I am strongly consider the sound. At the moment, I am treating sound parallel to sticked image. I am a bit afraid of editing separately. I’m not sure if the documentarian value of image is loosing. But is it a documentary al all? If so, what am I documenting ?

The result seems not to look as documentation at all, following these way of thinking it could be a “poem” as well (sic!).

 

Technically , the very reach session today. I’ve found brand new and extremely powerful machine in Learning Zone, at Davies Street, that I occupy frequently [most of the students around Davies St. are about Fashion ].

There is full FinalCut Six. I did some test with new compressor by Apple, ProRes. and compare it to HD 1080i50. The results is very good, as it looks that with my quit chromatic footage it saves around 30% of hd space with similar (if not) better quality. [ I am not fan of Apple products at all!] 

Conclusions:

 

I’m up for AppleProRes comp., as the compression subject is wide and endless,  my current editing would be some kind of a test for this particular solution. (I still need to find one for dv recorded footage – DVC Pro?…)

 

The Meaning of a sound in footage ( within it’s documentarian aspect ) – I am confused about sound in my piece generally. The treating it in parallel works well, and gives effects also as as soundtrack, but doesn’t add a values as a doc ( at least in practice). Therefore my previous quote , thinking was wrong, The good prove of it is footage used during my presentation. I didn’t use any sound during it, but for you tube publish i briefly compose it with Morton Feldman music. Id change the mood, that is much stronger now. But it didn’t loose the value as documentary, I guess ( I am talking now about my ‘practical” impressions, away of theory).

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