Post-Production Explained - Each Step of the Post-Production Process [Stages of Filmmaking, Ep 4]

Post production movies - A film isn’t done until it’s gone through post-production, and in this video we examine the various steps within the stage, from editing to sound design to VFX.
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03:07 - Chapter 1: Picture Editing
07:49 - Chapter 2: Additional Visuals
12:39 - Chapter 3: Sound
20:32 - Takeaways
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LEARN POST PRODUCTION
You’re just catching your breath from a demanding shoot. You’re on your last legs but you did it; you got everything you needed in the can. It’s time for post production.
POST PRODUCTION 101
The first step in post-production is picture editing. This is where the footage is placed together in a deliberate order, and it is completed by an editor. The editor is aided by an assistant editor (or multiple assistant editors) who helps organize footage. The editor will work through the cut in stages - first the assembly, then the rough cut, the fine cut, and finally, the final cut.
ADDITIONAL VISUALS IN THE POST PRODUCTION WORKFLOW
Nowadays, there is often visual effects work to be done. This isn’t relegated to just sci-fi and fantasy projects; VFX are all over almost every movie and TV show today. The process is overseen by the VFX supervisor.
Next up is coloring which is conducted by the colorist, who typically works very closely with the cinematographer and director to get footage looking right. A colorist has two primary jobs. First, they color correct, then there’s color grading, where the coloring can become more stylized.
AUDIO POST PRODUCTION PROCESS WORKFLOW IN FILM
Sound is overseen by the supervising sound editor. First is sound editing, where all the sounds are put in place. There’s also music, which has a team including a composer, music supervisor, music editor, and more. Once all the sounds are recorded and in place, it all needs to be mixed together by the re-recording mixer.
As you can see, there’s a lot of work that goes into post-production, and it can be a lengthy process involving hundreds of people. But it’s worth putting the time and money into it. Post-production makes or breaks a movie.
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Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Film Post-Production 01:00 - The Post-Production Process 03:07 - Chapter 1: Picture Editing 07:49 - Chapter 2: Additional Visuals 12:39 - Chapter 3: Sound 20:32 - Takeaways

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This is quite condensed. Quite the feat to cram it in to 20 minutes. Each section could be an hour long and it would be diffucult to cover most aspects well. I'm from the sound side of the production and post production fields. The Foley section was a little short, as the artists and mixers often produce sounds even editors will struggle to cobble together. Perhaps you should have quoted a few lines from David Yewdalls book :) . Lots of juicy ones to pick from. Book recommendations "Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound" David Lewis Yewdall , "Dialogue Editing for Motion Picture" by John Purcel , "Foley Grail" by Vanessa Theme Ament. There's probably way more by now too.

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As a musician trying to learn basic 3D VFX workflow for my videos, I wish this segment dealt more with compositing, which as I understand is not done in After Effects but in Nuke.

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Great video :) Cheers 🤩Could explain the difference in offline and online editing. What it is and how it works? I hear it is about the downsizing the files size to make the editing flow easier.

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Offline refers to using proxy files, which are smaller, lower quality versions of the originals. This is done both to take up less space and for better performance when editing. Online refers to using the original high quality files, which is crucial for color grading and VFX.

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Interestingly enough Gary Fleder the director of Don't Say A Word doesn't do an Assembly Cut and just goes straight to the Rough Cut

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Sounds daring haha

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@@StudioBinder He gives his justification for doing this on his commentary track for the aforementioned film. I haven't listened to it in a while but basically he doesn't want to watch a four hour version of something that is supposed to be two and he just ends up hating everything about it

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@@StudioBinderaccepting dual dialog in a fdx (it currently just deletes that dialog without even alerting you), and having undo when editing scripts would be nice.

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So it's the mixing part that's responsible for the fucked up dialogue-explosion sound balance in modern movies.

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Mixing is the main factor

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*Could you make a video on 'Comedic Device' or 'Comedy Literary Devices'?❤*

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I think even by the end of the 90's movies moved to digital postproduction even though production and screening were still film. What was interesting about Oppenheimer is that after the movie was digitally edited, they went back and cut the internegatives or interpositives together to match the digital version and made the release prints optically from those. A callback to the days when the whole process was analog.

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In post production work in their dubbing also

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I disagree with your definitions. CGI doesn’t mean totally created in computer. It means aspects of the shot are computer generated. It can be used in composite shots and mocap shots. Definitions like this are why films like Top Gun can claim to use 'no cgi' when 99% of a captured shot is replaced by digital creations.

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A shot can have parts of it made with CGI. But that still makes CGI computer generated imagery no?

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Editing videos pls

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What topic?

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Please make a 3d production pipeline.

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