Basic Editing/ General Help and Advice

[Vincent Rosati]

I’ve never used OnLocation, but in Premiere there is an Auto Scene Detect feature that you could use during capture. In theory, this will clip the files to cuts, each time the Record button was pressed. Perhaps OL has a similar feature.?
Otherwise, you would manually set In/Out points for the desired clips during capture. This is what I do.
Don’t rush the capture process. It’s not glamorous, but it’s a very important stage of what can be a very complicated process.
You don’t want to have long files for the Premiere project, you want clips, for editing.
You won’t have to create multiple instances of clips, you can reference any clip as many times as you need to in a NLE! 🙂

As far as what to do with them. Editing them as a music video can be nice. Pick a couple of songs and edit around them. They will help to give you tempo, so you may not have to put as much thought into that.
Generally, hard cuts are good, transitions effects are bad. Although, slow dissolves are nice.
Maybe make a tile grid, and scale down portions of video to run simultaneously in different parts of the grid (after deinterlacing, of course).
Or, slow tracking reduced-size video frames horizontally through the screen…

Just a few ideas

Vince

[Glenn Fleagle]

Different people prefer different ways.
Personally, i like a lot of short clips and i can name them to help me find the scene i’m looking for when i’m editing and inserting clips
But a good friend of mine just makes very long clips and then uses the preview portion of the program and the “set in point” and “set out point” keys to break up his long clips into what he wants to insert.
I hope this helps you decide.

[Manjeet Gill]

I have never used the scene detection feature! we’ve recently started covering live events and this will help immensly – thanks for that.

Manjeet Gill (Creative Director)
http://www.bsalute.co.uk
Birmingham Salute Media Productins Ltd

[Dan Edwardson]

I use Scene Dection now I find it very useful; in can make your bin more messy lol I only found out bout the scene dection after my first big shot and found out that the camera had it turned off!!!

[Dan Edwardson]

I use Scene Dection now I find it very useful; in can make your bin more messy lol I only found out bout the scene dection after my first big shot and found out that the camera had it turned off!!!