Post-Production Productivity

Discover techniques and tools for being highly productive under the crush of information, data, and tasks associated with being a video editor.

Introduction

• Welcome to Post-Production Productivity
• What you need to know

1. Project Organization and Setup in Avid

• Organizing your main project
• Naming your sequences or outputs
• Creating your "Elements" project
• Setting up a sharing system

2. Dailies and Timeline Organization in Avid

• Organizing raw dailies: Single camera workflow
• Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized
• Organizing raw dailies: Multicamera workflow
• Building KEM rolls to view your dailies
• Selects organization
• Organizing and naming video tracks
• Logging and organizing errors and tech issues
• Organizing and naming audio tracks

3. Building Your Post-Production Workflow with Trello

• Going deeper with your Trello structure map
• Using colors to organize and track your editorial progress
• Managing editorial teams with Trello
• Tracking your time with Toggl
• Intro to building your post workflow with Trello
• Creating and organizing "notes" checklists
• Outsourcing repetitive tasks to Trello checklists
• Slack for team communication

4. Getting Things Done (GTD) For Editors

• Keeping things organized in OmniFocus with the Review feature
• Creating checklists in Trello to batch process tasks
• Organizing editorial tasks in Trello by energy level
• Creating custom perspectives in OmniFocus
• Using Trello for GTD (instead of OmniFocus)
• Using OmniFocus to capture your tasks
• Using OmniFocus to sort your actions and projects
• Creating timeline presets to edit in contexts
• Using OmniFocus to assign contexts

5. Email Management For Editors

• Cleaning up your inbox using Trello, OmniFocus, and Evernote
• Introduction to inbox zero
• How to declare email bankruptcy
• Filtering email messages and paperwork
• Advanced tools to organize your inbox

6. Information Overload and Your External Brain

• How to deal with FOMO
• Sorting information sources with Feedly
• Capturing useful information with Pocket
• Organizing materials with Evernote
• Making room for creativity with your external brain
• Capturing information to your external brain
• Sorting and processing info in your external brain

7. Time Blocking and Advanced Tools and Apps

• Organizing your daily and weekly calendar to avoid crunch time
• Intro to time blocking for editors
• Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions
• Apps to help you time block
• Browser extensions and apps to maximize focus
• Saving time with TextExpander
• Automating with Hazel

Conclusion

• Taking your productivity to the next level