Season 2 ‘ The Fix’ Part 4 – An Editing Interlude

by Nathan Stout (of AccordingToWhim.com)

Welcome to the fourth part of the According To Whim Season 2 ‘Fix’. This time I had to do some editing since the camera was in for repair and I couldn’t review more tapes. The editing I have been doing is in an attempt to rebuild Episodes 3, 4, 5, and 6 of our public access television show: According To Whim (Season 2). Season 3 Episode 1 was also lost so I have included it as well. You can read the first part (and the full story) by clicking here.

Before I begin what I have been editing I thought I’d give you an update on the camera itself. By the time I have written this I have gotten the camera back. I paid the $351.00 and the camera was cleaned and the firewire port was replaced. It arrived back safely and I can do more tape reviewing.

While the camera was out I took the opportunity to get back to the most time intensive part of the whole project, the re-editing. In case you didn’t know when we shoot a sketch or a scene we will shoot it from AT LEAST 3 angles and then some optional shots ‘just in case’. That means there are a minimum of 3 tracks of video to edit together for the most basic of scenes. That means a lot of editing but it also means the scene looks good. All those alternative angles provide edit points to cover mistakes and tighten up the story line. I have been mainly editing Episode 3 but have strayed into 4 a little bit as well so you are going to see a little bit of everything here. Editing is being done in Adobe Premier. This list of edits and work I have done has infact covered a couple of weeks of work (including work after the camera came back).

Episode 3:

Reassociate files missing out of the project. Had an issue with bad file freezing during loading. Found file and deleted it from project.
Edited S8 (which stands for Scene 8).
Edited S9 (would like to add more cardboard rustling on audio track).
More Editing of E3S11 (club scene). Really need new exterior shot of ‘club’.
Lots of missing audio cues. Searched and found them on an old .ISO on PC. Was able to re associate all back into project.
Missing S10 (getting ready to go to club). This footage must have been lost. Will need a reshoot of this scene.
Work on ‘Our House’ music video scene. Finished it but did some re-editing to make it look nicer (fit better).

Intros/Exits/Credits:

Complete rebuild of opening for show. The ‘classical’ opening and the fast music montage for each episode was rebuilt. I could have found a way to pull the opening from Episode 1 or 2 (which is in DIVX format from when I uploaded them to YouTube before the crash). I didn’t want to do this because I am thinking that the quality would be really bad. I decided to just rebuild the whole thing. The ‘classical’ part of the opening is dead on but the montage is a little different but not too noticeably so.
The show end credits were completed before the crash and saved (like all the other ‘saved’ footage and edits) only because I had sent a copy with Miguel to do some editing. I did do some altering of the dates and added our money donors who helped buy the new hardware (which we are still accepting donations… hint hint).

I will continue with more editing after the next (and final) tape review ‘fix’ blog. One more item I did want to talk about was an official According To Whim timeline. During all my editing and tape reviewing I was having to do more and more organization of footage on my hard drives and I felt it necessary to categorize the different years and types of footage into an easier to understand format so I choose to organize all (show type) footage into three groups… Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3. I have decided to file footage into these groups using this method:

Season 1 – 2004 thru 2006
Season 2 – 2007 thru 2009 (starting with the new camera)
Season 3 – 2010 +

As for all other footage I have basically put it under a folder called ‘Business’ which includes actually for money work as well as all the donation videos we do.
Join me next time for the 5th part of the Season 2 fix. Peace out.

Season 2 – before the EVENT, being frustrated

Then… The EVENT!

THE EVENT – Click here for First Post
THE EVENT – Click here for Update #2
THE EVENT – Click here for Update #3
THE EVENT – Click here for Update #4
THE EVENT – Click here for Update #5
THE EVENT – Click here for Final Update #6

Then… the Fix!

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