Smooth post-production workflow: Key to make pro-quality video post-production

One of the most important steps in professional editing is making a good plan. Plan the story you want to tell, and also how you’re going to tell it in a consistent way.

Good, engaging videos tell stories. A story helps gets what you want to say across to the viewers in a logical, relatable way which holds their interest, with a beginning, middle, and an end. You should figure out the story before you ever shoot, put it together as a script, and refer to the script as you edit, but whether you have a script or not, now is the time to come up with a plan for how to tell the story.

Make sure you plan out how you’re going to use elements like transitions, colors, musical cues, titles and fonts; use them consistently. For example, maybe use certain kinds of color correction with certain kinds of footage, like keeping interviews in full color and then cutting to video of what the interviewee is discussing in black and white or some other stylized color. Plan your transitions so that you use them the same way throughout the video.

Edits begin with media import. Right from the start, keep your media organized – a good, efficient video editor relies on effective media management.

Most professional video productions keep shot logs during production, noting what was shot and marking shots and takes as good and usable, so work from that when you have one. Import according to what you need and how you plan to use it. Take what you need, and arrange your media into bins, which can be organized the way which works best for you: by media type, by scene, by common elements, or whatever makes sense for your production and your editing style

Used effectively, animated transitions like wipes or flashes can add some visual interest to your videos, but don’t overdo it. Always use them sparingly, and when you do, use them logically and consistently. Use them to emphasize important points in your video or to move between, for example, interview segments and b-roll, but avoid making them too flashy or distracting, or you may exhaust your viewers.

VEGAS Pro features automatic crossfades. Just overlap two events on the timeline and you instantly create a crossfade, also known as a cross-dissolve. No need to drag handles or retrim events; the ends of your timeline events remain the same and the overlap becomes a crossfade. If you want to add one of the huge selection of GPU-accelerated animated transitions, all you have to do is drag and drop it into the crossfade.

VEGAS Pro also offers GPU timeline acceleration, allowing for faster, smoother playback of AVC and HEVC video. This enables you to edit in real time even with many layers and added effects.

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