How do you log footage?

How do you log footage?

6 Easy Steps for Logging Footage

1. Organize Your RAW Footage.
2. Import Footage into Preferred NLE.
3. Review What You Have.
4. Take Out What You Don’t Need.
5. Break Your Footage Down and Create Subclips.
6. You Won’t Remember Everything, so Write it Down.

How do you organize your footage?

Here are some good tips on organizing videos and managing your content files.

1. Buy an external hard drive. Raw video footage takes up a lot of space.
2. Move videos off your camera.
3. Clearly date and label the files.
4. Create an organized folder structure.
5. Back up everything.
6. Tag your files.

What is log or flat footage?

To put it simply, Logarithmic footage, generally known as Log, is flat footage that contains more details of the scene it’s baking into the image. This kind of footage is not intended to be used without editing so it needs further alterations to be used as the final footage.

How to use log footage to gain control over your image?

A LUT (Look Up Table) is a mathematical array that takes the input color and luminance values of an image and translates that into a desired desired color and luminance output. Editors and colorists use LUTs as a way to interpret log footage and get the image they want.

Is there a way to expose log footage correctly?

You could set the monitor to 709, expose a grey card by eye to what you think it should look like, then flick on the LOG curve and waveform and see where it sits. Chances are that grey will sit somewhere around that 32-38 level. This is also very useful for nailing correct skin tones.

Do you put a LUT on log footage?

LOG footage tends to all look a bit grey and wishy washy, adding a LUT will give saturation and this helps (my eyes at least) see what is in focus, somehow the image clicks in and bites when its in focus. I like to show LUT images certainly to clients and even directors.

What’s the easiest way to log raw footage?

1. Organize Your RAW Footage While this is not as important to some as it is to others, I’ve always found that if I organize my hard drive folder structure in a similar fashion to how I will structure my bin in my NLE, then life is made that much easier. The more organized you are, the easier logging and editing will be.