Footage Log Instructions

This spreadsheet template was used for a project that had 300 hours of originally shot footage and a team of interns and Assistants were to log them. So this was used to organize their work and create priorities and keep organized outside of our editing software. We were using Avid. I’m not sure this is always useful, as usually you can see in Avid, but when you can’t keep up with what’s shot and priorities change, it can be useful to have something like this to sort through in a big documentary project.

Footage Log Template

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  1. There are 5 Tabs

    1. Avid Bin Progress

      1. This tab is to make sure shoot footage is processed and synched.

    2. Shoot Day Log

      1. This contains a description of what was shot for each shoot day.

    3. Scene List

      1. This is a list of possible scenes that could be cut from the footage

    4. Log Process

      1. This is a list of sequences that have been logged

      2. It also shows how much footage has been shot in the project.

    5. Transcriptions

      1. This is a list to show the process of Transcriptions and Translations.

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Setting Up a New Hard Drive Instructions

Always, always format a new hard drive out of the box. Many hard drives are sold to be read on a Macintosh, Windows, or other operating systems. It’s important to get the full capacity of a hard drive to format it before you begin to use it. This is how

Setting up New Hard Drive

  1. Eject all other hard drives except the new hard drive

  2. Open Disk Utility on a Mac (Apple) computer

  3. Select the new hard drive

    1. Click “Erase” in the middle on the top

    2. Name the hard drive

      1. “(NAME OF PROJECT)” if it’s the main hard drive

      2. “(NAME OF PROJECT)_backup” if it is a backup hard drive

      3. Sometimes we’ll use a system of letters and #’s to indicate the hard drive’s backup

        1. I.e. 1st hard drive is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1A, it’s backup is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1B, & 2nd backup is (NAME OF PROJECT)_1C.

          1. Once (NAME OF PROJECT)_1A is full, we’d start with (NAME OF PROJECT)_2A and created 2 backups of that (NAME OF PROJECT)_2B & (NAME OF PROJECT)_2C, for example

  4. Set up folder structure for new project.