Today, is March 23, 2004, The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.

DV Production Steps:

1. Shoot your video
2. Input (digitize) your video into a desktop editing system, such as Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere
3. Edit you project
4. Add titles using the built-in titling system.
5. Do some color correction, if you feel up to it and you feel your project needs it.
6. Audio -
   • Track 1 - Use production effects that you recorded while shooting. However, they will probably not be satisfactory.
   • Track 2 - If you can, add additional sound effects to a separate audio track complement the production sound effects.
   • Track 3 - Add dialog tracks to a separate track within your edit system, also.
   • Track 4 - Add music tracks to a separate track.
   • Track 5 - Try your hand at mixing the M & E (music and effects) together on this channel
   • If you feel that your sound is not worthy of the great picture you have edited you may want to have some sound work done. If so, do the following:
     1. Export your Edited Picture and Track 1 & 2 to one DV. (DV only has two tracks
     2. Export your Edited Picture and Tracks 3 & 4 to another DV
     3. Give both DV's to Point 360.
     4. We will clean up the dialog, add extra effects and foley, and then mix the M & E to channel 1 and Dialog to channel 2.
     5. You might also consider having us mix your tracks to a stereo format.
7. We dub your DV picture to a Digital Betacam.
8. Then we layback your finished audio to the Digital Betacam. If you are trying for an international distribution, we will put the stereo D, M, & E (dialog, music, & effects) on channel 1 & 2 and the M & E on channel 3 & 4. Or we can just mix down to a mono track and put the composite D, M, & E on channel 1 & 2.
9. You're done...almost
10. You may feel you need more color correction. If so, you can supervise a color correction session. This process transfers from the existing Digital Betacam to another color corrected Digital Betacam.
11. Digital Betacam is the most popular distribution tape format in the world.
12. Now you can make some DVD's and VHS's for film festivals and to interest distributors in purchasing your project.
13. Final step - Become rich and famous and have a great life.