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“subclip” or equivalent for project bins?
I have several tapes with unbroken timecode but that cover very many different shots and locations. Because of the unbroken timecode, Premiere’s “scene detect” does not function, so these tapes are captured as an hour-long single file of footage. I would like to break these into many clips and rename each clip whatever I like, but I do not want to manually split them into lots of different files. Is there a way to select an in/out of a clip and then turn that into a “virtual clip” in the project window somehow?
Sony Vegas has this as part of their “subclip” capability (you select in/out and then hit “subclip” and it shows up in the media window as if it were a separate clip/file) and that’s what I’m trying to duplicate. I’m using CS3 (3.2) if that helps.
If Premiere Pro doesn’t have this, is there any other way to accomplish what I want? The only alternative I can think of is to put each hour-long tape onto the timeline and break it up, then name each section, but that’s very klunky…
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PPro has subclip capability. In the source window, mark your In and Out and then click and hold in the window and drag that to a bin. You get a popup window to name the subclip.
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You will also find links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
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Just so its clear. PP does have the ability to capture and scene detect. The Scene Detect function, currently works only with DV, but it doesn’t use the timecode break. continuous timecode is unbroken. A camera can turn off then on again and not lose timecode. the off/on of the camera is what the scene detect function uses to detect a shot break. IF you shot non-stop and didn’t turn off the camera at all until you ran out of tape, that’s different and wouldn’t be described as unbroken timecode but more I shot the whole tape in one unbroken shot.
Making Subclips is as simple as opening the clip in the source panel, setting in/out points, right clicking in the source window…select make sub clip or dragging the source video to the project panel. You can set your own short cut key/s for the action in Edit>Keyboard customization…Application>Clip>Make Subclip click in the right column next to the funciton name and pres the key/s to create the shortcut. I use shift+m it doesn’t conflict with any other functions and relate to Make a Subclip.
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These are all excellent replies, I had no idea the capability existed, nor the premiere pro wiki. Thanks to everyone!
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