Noob: General guidlines for editing workflow? Edit, Fx, Color, Render

[mikecazzx]

I am finding some great tutorials online for Premiere, but few really give a guideline for workflow. Some show many different ways to do the same thing within editing and color correction. I figure I will learn which works for me, but want to ask the following.

Do I generally do all my edits for the whole piece first?

Do I then apply effects like vignette, color filters etc?

When I move to color correction do I generally start with brightness and contrast or is better to start with exposure correction with a plugin like Magic Bullet exposure?

Do I color after brighness and contrast?

Where does sharpening belong in the flow?

 

[Jim Simon]

As a general rule, you'll want to do your edits before your effects work. Not sure it really matters much what order you do the effects in.

 

[weplaywithtraffic]

I am finding some great tutorials online for Premiere, but few really give a guideline for workflow. Some show many different ways to do the same thing within editing and color correction. I figure I will learn which works for me, but want to ask the following.

Do I generally do all my edits for the whole piece first?

Do I then apply effects like vignette, color filters etc?

When I move to color correction do I generally start with brightness and contrast or is better to start with exposure correction with a plugin like Magic Bullet exposure?

Do I color after brighness and contrast?

Where does sharpening belong in the flow?

I'm not 100 percent sure if there's an actual list you should follow to edit.
But as a user of Premiere i lay out all my footage in the timeline first then once all my footage is in place, i start with my color correction, then i lay a tint and map my blacks to a really dark brown, and map my whites to almost a skin tone with a 35% transparency. I find this works best for me and gives it a cinematic feel.

 

[Phil1076]

Can you elaborate on that, weplaywithtraffic....that sounds interesting.

 

[mikecazzx]

I'm not 100 percent sure if there's an actual list you should follow to edit.
But as a user of Premiere i lay out all my footage in the timeline first then once all my footage is in place, i start with my color correction, then i lay a tint and map my blacks to a really dark brown, and map my whites to almost a skin tone with a 35% transparency. I find this works best for me and gives it a cinematic feel.

Can I see how that looks somewhere online?