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HDV Indie Film Workflow suggestions…
Hi all,
I’m fairly adept at Premiere functionally, but wanted to know what others are doing workflow-wise with premiere for independent features etc.
I’m talking mainly managing media, captures and sequences – I’ve just completed editing my first HDV short film in premeire pro 1.5.1 (with Aspect HD) and was quite happy with it, but would love to hear hints about real-world editing workflow.
This is what I did:
Capture Bin:
– contains raw AVI capture files
Scenes Bin:
– contains Sequences that match each Scene name/number in ScriptSequences all had the exact same number of Audio/Video tracks (all in the same order) with the Audio tracks named things like:
– Room-Environment
– Character1’s name
– Character2
– Character3
– SFX 1
– SFX 2
– Music 1
– Music 2
then the submix tracksthat way I thought if I needed to cut and paste from one sequence to another it would all match up. Any other ideas that might help? I want to get workflow down so I can start working on feature length films. My 10min short used 5 hours of footage and I was able to deal with that ratio ok on my external 7200rpm drive – I imagine I’ll have to be efficient for longer forms though.
Also, any dvd-guides/books on workflow with using premiere for long features? At this stage I don’t see the pressing need to upgrade to Prem Pro 2.0.
thanks for any help/suggestions,
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3 Replies
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you can name audio tracks?
how do you toggle between tracks?
so you assembled scenes as nested sequences on your main timeline? don’t you find that plays clunky off the external drive?
What is your final product? DVD?
Mike
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Yup, it’s no problem to rename audio (or video) tracks in premiere pro. Just right click on them and Rename. One toggles between tracks by highlighting the track by selecting it on it’s left hand side. You will see that one Video or one Audio track is generally darker when selected.
I was making each scene a separate sequence, and had originally wanted to then have the master be consisting of each of the sequences dragged to the timeline. Yes this works fine off the external maxtor 300gb no problem, however, I did have some trouble getting the transitions to work well between sequenced scenes in the master as I hadnt given enough pre and post roll in each sequence.
So I ended up just making sure all the track names matched between sequences and then just cut & pasted to the master (not ideal as if a scene changes it would need to change in both places). and that worked.
My finished product is DVD (but since it’s edited in HDV I can burn to HD-DVD or BluRay when that becomes available to me too).
Just wondered if anyone else is having similar issues workflow wise and wanted to see what others do…
Sam
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you can actually set keyboard shortcuts to target a higher or lower trck, saves lots of mouse clicking.
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