Edius Video Editing

The what, when, how and why of EDIUS and NLEs
Briefly - Post-production work flows

Editing with EDIUS
Briefly - How NLEs work

News Workflow – Fast, Preset Styles, High Technology
Long form documentary Workflow – High Organisation, Creative
Fiction film workflow
Briefly - Storyboarding

What is similar to an NLE and what is different
Briefly - EDIUS hardware and software options
What happens when you import media into EDIUS

Displaying, Hiding and Repositioning windows
Selecting clips in a media folder
Asset Bin basics: Making and deleting new media folders
Asset Bin basics: Importing folders rather than media files
Asset Bin basics: What ‘Root’ means
Asset Bin basics: Multiple views in the media folders
Monitor windows: JKL playback
Monitor windows: Choosing overlay information
Timeline basics: Different types of timeline tracks
Timeline basics: Monitoring tracks
Timeline basics: Zooming
Timeline basics: Timeline display options
Briefly - Basic editing with In and Out marks
Markers overview
Info Palette
Effects Palette
How the menus are structured
The ‘model’ for the interface
Briefly - Setting up the system for an edit
Multiple shortcuts - getting from A to B on multiple paths
The power of UNDO (and REDO
Briefly - Saving your work
Briefly - Basic editing – overwrite and insert editing

Overview of editing using EDIUS
Video and audio: treated the same ‘but different’
Overwrite mode and Insert mode
What is displayed on the viewing monitors
Different ways to play and view clips
Scrubbing the timeline
Marking clips - why and how
What a sequence is
Creating, deleting and duplicating a sequence

Trimming
Adjusting the tail of a clip with trimming
Adjusting the head of a clip with trimming
Trim mode
Leaving trim mode
Overview taster of trimming multiple clips
Resizing Timeline tracks
Displaying audio levels with the audio mixer
Briefly - viewing and setting audio level
Briefly - setting simple audio key-frames

What is stored in a project file
EDIUS Prime Course Book
Auto-Save and Back-Up
Restoring your project from a back-up
What to back-up for archiving
Summary

Setting audio levels on the timeline with key-frames
Advanced key-frame adjustments on the Timeline
Recap – In and Out marks are different to keyframes
Briefly – Transitions as alternatives to keyframing
Disabling audio waveforms on the timeline
Briefly – Editing on the timeline – display controls and clip layers
Setting audio key-frames using the mixer
Adjusting Pan
Normalising audio
Setting audio channel mapping
Extracting audio from a music CD
Voice-over tool
Summary

Organising clips in the media folder
Recap – Fine tuning and trimming

About transitions
Applying the default transition with a shortcut
Setting the default transition in the Effects palette
Briefly - Applying basic video effects
Applying transitions to multiple clips
Removing transitions
Rendering
How to render

Applying a video effect
Accessing FX settings
Removing video and audio effects
Summary

Timeline channel selections
Moving tracks
Locking tracks
Adding tracks
Briefly - Titles – as graphics and as video clips
Removing tracks
Sync mode
Briefly - Dialogue - challenges, keyboard shortcuts & continuity
Deleting and Ripple DeletingAdding edits to segments
What counts as a sync problem
Trimming to fix sync problems
Dual roller trims
Slip and Roll trims
Briefly - Managing projects – nesting sequences
EDIUS Prime Course Book
Recap - Audio

Trimming shortcuts - ‘M’ and N’
Using Match Frame to locate media
Using Reverse Match Frame
Changing the pace and rhythm of dialogue by editing
The 180 degree line
Continuity of composition and continuity of action
‘J’ cuts and ‘L’ cuts
Revisiting sync mode for dialogue editing
Pre-marking clips in the Asset Bin
Recap - Saving your work – where it is saved and what is saved

Introduction to camera recording systems
Introduction to working with multiple formats in EDIUS
Using video layout tools for scaling and resizing
Importing media from Hard Drives
Briefly - Multicam - preparing media and menu options
Tape-Based Media
File-based media
All about timecode
Importing from CD/DVD media
Briefly - Exporting to tape and files
Briefly - Project management – staying organised
Recap - Post-production workflows

Planning your edit
Organising storage drives
The two-week rule
Naming clips
Naming sequences
Recap - Importing media
Summary

Media folder search tools
Media folder organisation
Nesting sequences
Revisiting the relationship between clip media files
Deleting clips and media files from inside of EDIUS
Deleting media on your storage drives
Recap - Basic editing

Preparing media for Multicam
Multicam editing step by step
Manual adjustments to Multicam edits

Creating new titles
Creating a new title in a media folder
Creating a new title directly on the timeline
About the Quick Titler
Safe Title and Action guidelines
Entering text on a title
Selecting and repositioning objects in a title
Text properties
Creating simple shapes
Layering the contents of a title
Working with titles on the timeline
Editing titles
Recap - Managing Projects – organising media
Applying title transition FX
Rolling and Crawling titles
Recap - Video FX and transitions
Recap - EDIUS hardware and software

Preparing your sequence for output to tape or file
Burning in timecode
Revisiting Rendering – what is rendering?
Output to files
Preparing for output to tape
Recording to tape
Recap - Multicam
Recap - Compression
Briefly - Collaboration – challenges, compatibility and workflows
Recap - Interface overview and ‘model’

Creating, accessing and transferring User Profiles
EDIUS Prime Course Book
Using settings to customise your editing experience
Changing buttons
Changing keyboard shortcuts
Useful standard keyboard shortcuts
Jumping to timecode points using the numerical keyboard
Creating user-layouts
Recap - working with the timeline – buttons and controls

Sharing media assets
Importing and exporting Asset Bin contents
Recap - Titles
Importing and exporting projects in other formats
Recap - Output to tape
Transporting projects
The Consolidate project tool
Recap - System set-up
Recap - Overview of editing with NLEs