Documentary Segment

From PiTiViWiKi

This example is admittedly somewhat contrived. It may not represent a typical editing situation, but it does succinctly exercise all of PiTivi's major concepts and features: sources, transitions, and effects.

Situation

The editor is editing documentary segment about labor relations and politics. In this segment, an interview between a university professor of history is intercut with footage a public demonstration.

• Whenver the professor is on-screen, a title card identifying the professor needs to be shown. (compositing)
• The editor would like to keep the interview audio continuous while the footage of the street scene is playing.
• The editor wants to use a crossfade transition when cutting between the professor and the protesters.
• The street scene footage was taken with a consumer digital camera, and is of poor quality
  • The footage was not properly white balanced. The editor applies a white balance filter to correct for this.
  • The audio quality is poor. The editor wants to replace the street scene audio with cleaner audio from a separate recording of the same event.

Sources

• professor_brown_interview.dv -- interview with professor brown
• professor_brown_title.png -- title card for professor
• protesters.mov -- scenes from a labor strike
• protestor_audio.wav -- audio-only recording taken from the same event with a high-quality recorder