Logging and capturing footage can be extremely long and tedious but it’s important work.
Trying to edit a ton of unorganized footage is a huge pain so you may as well do it right.
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of capturing footage. It’s fairly time consuming especially when all I want to do is edit!
I knew going in that I would have to capture all the footage we shot for The Climb myself.
Normally, I would put it off as much as possible before starting but this time, I had a deadline.
It turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Our camera was borrowed and had to be returned first thing Monday morning. This meant that all of the footage we shot had to be captured before we lost the camera.
We shot about roughly 6 hours of footage in total.
At the end of each day of shooting, I sat down, captured and watched each tape one by one. It’s a lot easier to do when you have a deadline. It was actually quite fun because most of the time, the crew was still around so I wasn’t by myself.
It also helps that Final Cut Pro makes ingesting footage relatively pain free.
I had a late night on Sunday but it was an amazing feeling knowing all the footage was digitized and ready to be organized and ultimately edited.
I woke up Monday morning with a smile on my face.
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