I have decided to chronicle a film mix and sound editing project that I am doing now. I think that it will help bring some amount of clarity and also bring in the adventure that happens when a film is starting post. Who knows, maybe it will end soon, or maybe it may prove to be an adventure like Indiana Jones!
The rough edit seems ok, no issues of 24-25fps. (Sometimes I get that and later the whole sound track goes out of sync.) The first thing I do is load it into a session. I try to make a session with First half and Second half as 2 sessions. It helps me in consistency of sound and also its easier to edit. Once this is done, I start marking each scene. I make a cut in the video track also, so its easier for me to tab to scenes and markers help me for cuts within the scene.
Thats it for now. More on this Later!
Why is it easier to edit if you have 2 sessions?
At that time the norm was to have each reel as a session. From that we moved to first half and second half as large sessions had issues playing back well in Pro Tools. Nowadays it’s just one session.