Video Post Productivity

Course details

You've heard the importance of working smarter, not harder—but have you taken the steps needed to make this a reality in your post-production projects? This series is designed to reveal productivity tips you can use to optimize the time and energy spent on the overhead involved in video post-production. Join film and television editor Zack Arnold as he shares how to keep your editorial projects organized, manage cumbersome email communications, keep track of tasks, use time effectively, and more. He focuses on how you can minimize busywork so you have more time for creativity.

Learning objectives
File management
Time blocking
Cleaning up your email inbox
Organizing and prioritizing notifications
Selecting apps to help you with task and time management
Filtering email messages and paperwork

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

Project Organzation and Setup in Avid

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

Dailies and Timeline Organization in Avid

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

Building your Post Workflow With Trello

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

Getting Things Done (GTD) For Editors

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

Email Management for Editors

31 - Introduction to Inbox Zero
32 - How to declare email bankruptcy
33 - Filtering email messages and paperwork
34 - Cleaning up your inbox using Trello, OmniFocus, and Evernote
35 - Tools to help you organize your inbox

Information Overload and Your External Brain

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

Time Blocking, Advanced Tools, and Apps

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