Tips and Tricks
Published by Graham Walker on 13 Sep 2005 at 12:15 am.
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Beware of the parasitic edit
Early in my days of editing, I got a bit lazy on some small aspect of the post-production and left in an editing glitch that bugged me a little bit. Now whenever I see the final product, I cringe and curse that I didn’t spend the extra 10 minutes to fix it.
If there is some small thing about your edit that is bugging you and even if it is something that no one else will notice, it will keep eating away at you every time you watch it and never go away.
Do yourself a favour and fix it, you will be glad you did in 6 months.
Steve Garfield on 13 Sep 2005 at 7:11 am: 1
In general I agree with you.
I’ve gone back and fixed a bug after exporting, encoding, and uploading a video.
Sometimes these bugs just have to be squashed even though it might take a lot of time and effort.
But other times, in order to stay sane, you’ve got to just let the bug live on forever in your video.
Like that pesky two frames of black at the end of a cut that you didn’t see when editing…
BTW, Nice ‘WATM’ film stock.
bre on 13 Sep 2005 at 10:08 am: 2
Good eye, Steve! Nice touch Graham!