6    Preparation

Everything that you do on a project before you actually start to ingest media into Final Cut Pro contributes to having a successful and efficient editing experience. Decisions that you make all along the way—script, location, lighting, audio recording, and shooting format—each have a part in defining what happens in post. Mistakes made in the preproduction and production phases have a way of rippling through the postproduction process, sometimes combining or compounding to make bigger headaches.

As mentioned in Chapter 2, workflows should be thought of as extending both before and after the postproduction process—before, as in preproduction and shooting; and after, in terms of compression, interactivity, and distribution concerns. ...

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