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Documentary workflow suggestions
Hello all,
I would like to solicit suggestions for an unusual editing workflow.
We are producing an educational segment in sort of a hybrid documentary / reality TV style.
I have a single sequence with 5 hours of sync’d DSLR (two camera + stand alone audio) footage. This sequence has been timestamped and rendered out to a story editor who made a rough cut of our segment in iMovie.
We now have to rebuild the segment in Premiere using the time coded iMovie edit. This means that I will need to edit from one sequence to another instead of from the project/program panel to the sequence like in a more normal workflow.
I will need to repeatedly find the correct clip in our master sequence, extract it (with audio) and bring it to the new sequence for finish editing.
How would you all do this? Would you link the audio to one of the video angles? Would you simply blade tool out the bits you want and copy/paste? I’m making the switch from FCP and this is a rough first project.
I have a LOT of this to do so your detailed suggestions (like, with shortcuts) would be extremely useful.
Thanks much,
Cassidy
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3 Replies
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I don’t think there is anything you can do really, short of sitting down and cutting it yourself. iMovie probably isn’t able to spit out anything useful like an EDL… you have no real way of taking useful information into Premiere to figure out the cut.
Try this:
Render out a high quality workfile WITHOUT timestamping or other markets. If you’re on Mac, then ProRes422, or Avid DNxHD 220.Why? Then you can watch the story editor’s cut, write down your in and out points and in Premiere bring the work file into your source monitor, type in the timecode spots and place all your edits. No real need to copy/paste from one sequence to another… saves yourself some keystrokes but it does generate a pretty massive work file.
Food for thought.
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Is there any reason why you can’t place the time stamped quicktime on the same timeline on a track above for quicker visual ref? not having to switch between sequences will save you a bit of time.
Also….
you can set up a keyboard shortcut for clip enable/disable…(normally this is a right click on the clip option)
I normally am pretty verbose in my answers….but I’m at work right now on deadlines myself…. sorry…
Alex
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Excellent suggestions and I will try both!
I am also going to clean up the audio tracks and merge them with the video to make cutting easier.
Cheers
Cassidy
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