Post-Production Productivity

Course details

Cutting-edge technology has brought shrinking deadlines and heightened expectations of what can be done in any given amount of time. To meet these demands, editors must learn how to work smarter, not harder. This course is designed to help beginner to intermediate editors introduce productivity best practices into their editing workflow. Hollywood video editor Zack Arnold discusses techniques and tools for organizing and prioritizing files, projects, emails, and more. Zack also shares his approach to focusing on critical tasks and not wasting time on unimportant tasks or busy work.

Topics include:
- Project organization and setup in Avid
- Dailies and timeline organization in Avid
- Building your post workflow with Trello
- Getting Things Done (GTD) for editors
- Email management for editors
- Information overload and your external brain
- Time blocking
- Advanced tools and apps

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to Post-Production Productivity
02 - What you need to know

1. Project Organization and Setup in Avid

03 - Organizing your main project
04 - Naming your sequences or outputs
05 - Creating your Elements project
06 - Setting up a sharing system

2. Dailies and Timeline Organization in Avid

07 - Organizing raw dailies - Single camera workflow
08 - Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized
09 - Organizing raw dailies - Multicamera workflow
10 - Building KEM rolls to view your dailies
11 - Selects organization
12 - Organizing and naming video tracks
13 - Logging and organizing errors and tech issues
14 - Organizing and naming audio tracks

3. Building Your Post-Production Workflow with Trello

15 - Going deeper with your Trello structure map
16 - Using colors to organize and track your editorial progress
17 - Managing editorial teams with Trello
18 - Tracking your time with Toggl
19 - Intro to building your post workflow with Trello
20 - Creating and organizing notes checklists
21 - Outsourcing repetitive tasks to Trello checklists
22 - Slack for team communication

4. Getting Things Done (GTD) For Editors

23 - Keeping things organized in OmniFocus with the Review feature
24 - Creating checklists in Trello to batch process tasks
25 - Organizing editorial tasks in Trello by energy level
26 - Creating custom perspectives in OmniFocus
27 - Using Trello for GTD (instead of OmniFocus)
28 - Using OmniFocus to capture your tasks
29 - Using OmniFocus to sort your actions and projects
30 - Creating timeline presets to edit in contexts
31 - Using OmniFocus to assign contexts

5. Email Management For Editors

32 - Cleaning up your inbox using Trello, OmniFocus, and Evernote
33 - Introduction to inbox zero
34 - How to declare email bankruptcy
35 - Filtering email messages and paperwork
36 - Advanced tools to organize your inbox

6. Information Overload and Your External Brain

37 - How to deal with FOMO
38 - Sorting information sources with Feedly
39 - Capturing useful information with Pocket
40 - Organizing materials with Evernote
41 - Making room for creativity with your external brain
42 - Capturing information to your external brain
43 - Sorting and processing info in your external brain

7. Time Blocking and Advanced Tools and Apps

44 - Organizing your daily and weekly calendar to avoid crunch time
45 - Intro to time blocking for editors
46 - Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions
47 - Apps to help you time block
48 - Browser extensions and apps to maximize focus
49 - Saving time with TextExpander
50 - Automating with Hazel

Conclusion

51 - Taking your productivity to the next level