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Long form project suitibility
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Mike-
That’s not a bad workflow IF you only have a few tapes and actually want to keep all of your selects – but if you have 60 or 70 tapes, hundreds or thousands of 1st cut selects, and end up with a 60 minute programme that only uses short snippets of each selected piece you end up needing capture room (and archiving space) for MUCH more material that you actually need to.
BTW – unlike the Media 100, you can’t batch digitize from the timeline – you need to select your “source clips” in the bin – which means you end up eating up more space than you need to even if you end up using part of most of the clips.
I think we all agree that you CAN cut longform on Premiere, David was, originally, looking for “gotchas” that would slow down his process – hard disk space is certainly one gotcha he needs to be aware of.
slainte,
marisu -
Speaking of this whole issue – about 6 months ago I cut a 20 minute program. Some of the material came from DV, but some other stuff came from DVCPRO, which does not have a firewire – so I went s-video into my DV camera to get it into the computer. Thus there is no TC for that material. If I trim the project I guess it will make me new clips for the stuff I used from that material? I have kept all that raw video in the computer ever since.
I think I’ll try trimming a smaller project first.
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One particular workflow no-no that drives me bonkers is the inability to pull a clip from the timeline to the source viewer and reuse it – you need to relocate it in the bins,
Marisu, I just did exactly this and it seems to work fine for me. I went to the timeline, hit T for Matchframe, hit G to remove In/Out points, remarked this clip in the Source Viewer and created another edit on the timeline with different In/Out points. Is this what you were trying to do?
LS
Larry Sherwood
Sherwood Post Production
Austin, Texas
512 219-8721
larry@sherwoodpost.com -
Larry-
No, not exactly – but I can do it that way if that’s what works – I simply want to drag the clip up and mark new ins & outs (no matchframe or remove In/out points – it’s the extra steps that I’d like to do without).
slainte,
marisu -
There really aren’t any extra steps.
Use the T key instead of Dragging
You DON’T have to remove the existing In/Out, just mark new In/Out
Press , or . to edit to timeline
The fact that you can drag a clip to the SV from the timeline allows for very powerful and easy Slipping of a shot without needing to use Slip Mode.
My 2 cents
LS
Larry Sherwood
Sherwood Post Production
Austin, Texas
512 219-8721
larry@sherwoodpost.com -
Larry-
I know HOW to do it, but the fact of the matter is it remains a gotcha for me because I never REMEMBER to do it that way – matchframe isn’t something I think of when see a shot and have an epiphany about there perhaps being a bit on the end I could use for some trouble spot – then when I see there is, I don’t think about where I pulled the clip from and screw myself up (I always catch it, but I lose time with it, that’s why it’s my gotcha). Maybe in a few years my old brain will catch up and “remember” things like that, assuming I’m still using Premiere then, and it still works the same – ARGGHHHHH!!! Never mind, I’ll just keep repeating T not drag, T not drag (although my coworkers will probably find ominous meanings in my muttering and scurry away when I pass them in the halls!)
slainte,
marisu -
I guess it’s all in the workflow approach, for me it is the same as in Edit, when I wanted to use a clip from the timeline as a source in the source viewer I always used the Matchframe keyboard command to load the clip to the source viewer so the workflow for me is the same.
LS
Larry Sherwood
Sherwood Post Production
Austin, Texas
512 219-8721
larry@sherwoodpost.com
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