DM 202: Video Editing

Overview

The act of shooting a video story is only one part of the complete storytelling process. The story must also have a written script and narration if necessary; and it must also be edited into a coherent story by removing unwanted scenes, shortening others, adding narration and music if wanted, and recording the finished piece to an Edit Master of some kind, either a DVD or DV tape or Betacam Tape. This course takes students step-by-step through the edit process. They will learn how to assemble a basic story using natural sound, sound on tape, B roll sequences, narration, music, and on-scene live reports.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Assemble a basic story using the editing tools available.
• Understand the principles of editing and be able to explain them and use them in a demonstration story.
• Be able to discuss the impact of editing on the power of the completed story.

Course Requirements

In this course, you will be editing digital video and photographic work. Therefore, the following are required:

• Avid Media Composer; students may use other advanced editing software, such as Pinnacle, but the instructor will NOT support any software other than Avid Media Composer
  * Avid Media Composer software is available for $295 from http://www.journeyed.com/itemDetail.asp?ItmNo=15228826MENTOR
  * This price reflects an educational discount for a savings of $4,700. Price without the educational discount is $4,995.
• Students with Macintosh computers should note that the new Avid Media Composer software is only functional on Intel Macs. Media Composer on the PC side also requires specific hardware configurations, as noted immediately below

PC

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit: Service Pack 2

System Memory: 2GBaDDR2 SDRAM (3GB recommended for HD and high-stream count SD projects: 4GB (4 x 1GB) required for HP xw8400 workstations in Avid Unity MediaNetwork 5.0 environments)

Mac

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.9. Earlier versions of Mac OS X are not supported.

System Memory: 2GB minimum, 3GB recommended for HD and high-stream count SD projects (more than 3GB will not be recognized by the system) Full screen play requires use of a graphics card with at least 128MB of memory

ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
DM 202 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore