ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

10 years ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

I'd go with at least a day - yes you'll hack it together in less, but you'll also have a lot of audio cuts to make, need to find cutaways, colour correct between cameras, and tell the narrative with pace, add subtiles, export to 4k, etc. On top of that, your client (if they're like all other clients) will watch the result and want changes that'll take almost as long as the original edit, unless you're crystal clear exactly which words they want to keep and the overall tone.

4k for a talking head interview, though? Is it really playing in cinemas? If it was shot with cheap 4k kit, it might be as noisy as a toddler group, which you'll have to fix, most simply by downgrading to 1080p or even 720p. Running any temporal denoise algorithm on 4k is very slow.

10 years ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren

And to add to Paddy's advice, I would say to check the deliverables. The more there are the longer the rendering will take. Also, if your edit machine isn't the fastest, this could eat up a lot of time if you have a number of different versions to output.

We cut a corporate video a while back expecting one or two outputs but ended up with 7 versions. Food for thought.

Wozy

10 years ago - Dan Selakovich

As Paddy and Wozy answered quite completely, I wasn't going to bother, but you've added new info: manipulating the 4k footage. Depending on your system, it could be quite long. I would allow at least an extra day for those "in computer" moves. The actual editing on talking heads shouldn't take any time at all. Allowing a day should be plenty.

10 years ago - Alistair Gillan

Hi Paddy, thanks for taking the time to respond, most helpful. On the 4k front, I'm using two Panny GH4's - final output will be 1080p but the benefit is being able to crop in and out, or create smooth slow slides, so far editing the 4K is bearable :-)