PART 7

POSTPRODUCTION

Part 7 (Chapters 38 through 44) covers the vital postproduction phase of filmmaking, when raw materials are fashioned into a seamless tale. Because of digital editing and the experimenting it encourages, and because today's editors are so familiar with screen techniques, this is a stage that is usually done rather well even by novices. Anyone who loves film can tell from the screen what needs doing next, and digital editing makes the doing easy.

My purpose in these chapters is not to discuss the merits of the different software programs because the outlook changes almost monthly. Rather, I will lay out procedural steps an discuss what to expect conceptually in terms of your work's evolution. This is an extremely important ...

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