Dumping Footage

 

Today is Monday, December 21st, and today we began the editing process of the film. While in the previous blogs, I detailed the filming process of the film, the post production process is a much different. It involves tweaking, editing, and minipularing the footage capture in the production process and organizing it in such a manor that you form the film. However to recap as to what we have filmed is a good place to start with the editing process. First of all we have completed the opening scene, the car rolling shots, and a significant portion of scene 1. This was done on the Friday before winter break, and I blogged about it in the previous 2 posts. In total, we captured around 10-12 minutes of film, just for these scenes. This was spread across 3 different devices aswell. Including, but not limited to: a DJI Mavic 2 Pro Drone, Go Pro Hero 8, and an IPhone 11. What the use of these different forms of equipment meant is there was different ways we needed to upload our raw takes, to edit as the scene. The first step involved  the footage being brought from the camera (the GoPro and Drone to be specific) to computer, also know as dumping. What we had to do was take out the SD card, put it into the SD reader, and plug it into the USB port on our computer. From there we opened the DCIM folder and found the folder containing our footage from a certain time. Then we created a desktop folder on our laptops, making sure to label each individual scene, and it’s significance to the film. Then, we transferred all the footage from the SD card to the folder on our laptop but using the select all command, and dragging it to our desktop. In total, it took us about 10 minutes to transfer all the footage, but it was a very important step in the post production process. Afterwards, we safely ejected the SD card by right clicking on devices and selecting “eject”. This made sure no data was lost on the transfer on the device. A similar, yet significantly different process was used to transfer the IPhone footage. The process involved using Apples specific ability to “AirDrop” footage, without a cellular connection. This made sure the data did not lose quality when being transferred. As such however, we all needed to get the footage to blog and edit about, so we decided to use the original phone and airdrop everything to everyone. From there I was able to airdrop my footage from my phone to my computer, since both of my devices are Apple. Finally, I once again brought the footage from my downloads to the folder with the specific scene headings to ensure we were able to keep track of all our footage.