[Notes] Camera and Video Taking & Editing

Basics

• NLE (Non-linear editing): “non-linear” only refers to the ability to freely move one piece of film/footage to the back or front of your other footage. NLE softwares are mainstream like Adobe Premiere Pro, etc.

• Hue: pure color without speaking of lightness, saturation, or brightness.

• Saturation: the intensity of a color, ranging from pure color (saturation=1) to gray (saturation=0).

• Coloring correction/grading:

  • White balance: to shift color cast of the video to make the whole scene look warmer or cooler (by adjusting color temperature in blue-amber axis, or tint in green-magenta axis)
  • Brightness/Exposure: to adjust the overall brightness of the video. Exposure has a heavier bias to highlight tones, while Brightness has no bias and affects all tones equally
  • Sharpening: is a color correction trick to make the video look sharper. It is done by increasing the contrast of certain edge pixels.