Week 10 and 11: The importance of offline and online editing as an editor

This week I was editing in premier pro all the achieved footage by creating samplers. Making them shorter and mini clips to create a spoiler for what clients can buy. These are to be posted online to boost advertisement.

These weeks I learnt the importance of offline and online editing through problems that were occurring in my workflow.

Offline Editing: a rough or draft cut of the project by editing a low-quality footage together

Online Editing: final cut of the project by editing a high-quality footage together

For instance, sometimes I made the task a lot more complicated by cutting the clips without having input of the director's vision. I learnt the best way was to show a rough cut first by clipping the footage into different shot frames and putting them all in category folders depending on what it is. Also, a good method to track what you are taking out is to keep creating new sequences to show the change and labelling “sequence 01” and so on. This would be the offline editing. Once I've had a creative meeting with the director and company and their vision's I can go onto the online edit.

My feedback was to be more through and organised within editing to make it clear to other people what the edit is. A good way to do this is following the company editing formats. I took this feedback on for the rest of my editing.

This week I learnt the importance of how editing collaboration works within COVID, and yes it involves a lot of constant zoom meetings that involve tap in and out.This is a skill i can take to future jobs.