A very short video that demonstrates in-camera editing.
Here's an excerpt from "Getting Started: In-Camera Editing" which appeared in Videomaker:.
In-camera editing is video production without the safety net.
Video production is most exciting when you do it by the seat of your pants. You can capture some great video with just a camcorder, a tripod and some guts o' steel. Today, we're going to take that seat-of-your-pants approach to the next level.
I'm talking about in-camera editing, a bare bones, stripped-down method for shooting a finished video program. It's editing without a safety net--without any decks, cables, computers, or other techno-video-toys. All you need is your camcorder. Call it "extreme editing." Trust me. It doesn't get more seat-of-your-pants than this.
In-camera editing is actually something of a misnomer. When you think of video editing, you probably think of a time when the shooting is over and you can put all the pieces of your program together at your leisure. Not so with in-camera editing. Why? Because in-camera editing requires you to edit while you shoot.
In fact, in-camera editing is not true "editing" at all. Instead, it refers to the process of shooting your program sequentially--each scene shot in order, and at the length that it will appear in the finished program--so that you have a complete program as soon as you are done taping.
While in camera editing does sounds appealing, (and certainly works for small and simple scenes like this) it seems to prioritize the sequence over other considerations, like actors, locations, light, etc. So many factors to weigh in on which route you choose.
ReplyDeleteYep, it takes a lot of planning to be spontaneous....
ReplyDeleteI produce and work on a lot of live productions where a switcher live edits the program so I get the appeal of not working with post-production and the appeal of only having the one take but I don't see that many advantages to in camera editing. It seems like more trouble than it's worth with all the factors that have to go into pre-production.
ReplyDeleteIt does sound like a lot of work, especially for longer segments. I enjoy the editing process and the ability to control multiple factors while at the computer. I can understand this method with Amanda's job of live broadcast, but as she stated there's a lot of pre-production factors. However, for most other projects, I feel this method would be inconvenient, especially if an unexpected event were to occur. Unless, that's the angle they're going for. In which case, more power to them! :)
ReplyDeleteI feel like in-camera editing doesn't really work when/if you are talking on much larger scale like shooting a movie. At least, I don't think it would work to shoot scenes in order, because you'd have to figure out a mutual time to schedule all the actors at the same time for each scene that you need them in.
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