best way to keep only needed content?

[Cy Jobes]

Look into “sub-clips”. Usually when in the preview monitor you can mark an in and out, then convert it into a sub-clip. This way you can take cut things into manageable pieces.

Cy

[Andy Engelkemier]

cool, I didn’t know about that, but it doesn’t Quite look like what I want. If I delete the original the subclips don’t work. So although it makes it nicer that I can name all of my clips and organize them in a place that Isn’t the timeline (Very handy, thanks).
I’d rather my project not be 350GB (that’s what it currently is). It probably should be something more like 50GB.

So here’s a workflow I’m thinking for the next project:

Import ALL my videos from outside of the project. Create my clips. Right click each of them and convert to master files. Now I can remove the original videos and am left with copies of the individual clips…from what I understand.
Where does it store those clips? That could be part of the challenge.

I will be keeping all of the original footage, but I don’t want to back it up with the project when it’s complete. I only want to backup what is necessary for the project.

Any advice on that process? Creating subclips is definitely good. I didn’t realize that it put the clip back in the project panel. I’ll definitely be using that in All future projects. But I still have troubles collecting only what I need and leaving the larger videos behind (probably on their own external drive)

[Cy Jobes]

Not so sure on that. Typically your hard drive is going to contain lots of GB worth in footage. In fact, you should be dealing with terabytes when it comes to the size of your hard drive.

You should also have several of these hard drives connected using RAID0 (stripped) at the minimum. This allows the data to be spread across the drives and recalled faster when editing/rendering.

I have not dealt with master files, as I usually edit with what is on the drive, render my final version, then move on to the next project, removing the former files from the edit drives completely.

Sorry I am not much help beyond that.

Cy

[Andy Engelkemier]

That’s good to know. I think I might just buy a new external for each project like this. I had no idea the master files were Tons of videos. The last video I edited for them was simply splicing 2 longer videos into one 3-5 min comp. No big deal.
I usually do AE work and I start with animated image sequences along with motion graphics I create, so Premiere is a bit of a different workflow. Unfortunately all I learned in school was a Really basic timeline. We would take a couple hours of footage and create a 2 minute video in the end so workflow and what to do with files really didn’t make much of a difference.

I’m not doing any compositing here, so 1 non-raid drive should be fine since it’s only reading 1 file at a time. Speeds seem acceptable for now. Even with playing 3 1080p30 files at once in the timeline it’s hanging in there, and I probably won’t need to go past that.