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Organizing Footage so that I can easily erase stuff from the timeline, yet still have access to it?
I am a traditional editor from Final Cut 7 (though not as traditional as Avid editors 🙂
What I have done is brought all my clips from a documentary into the timeline and have slowly been removing segments that I don’t want and organizing the footage into the way I want the story to flow.
My question is this:
How could I go about keeping track of which clips I am erasing from my timeline? Whenever I edit interviews, I work in a way that I put the most important things into the timeline first, then I slowly keep removing stuff until I get it down to the most important segments last to fit into my required video length.
In the old FCP, I would just copy each removed clip into a bin before deleting it so I could always go back and put it back in.
But how can I do something similar to keep track of all those erased clips so I could easily add them back in if I need to? Right now, the clips I don’t want have been moved to a segment at the end of the timeline, but I’d like them to be in the event library, or possibly categorized by keywords. Any idea of how to do this effectively?
Thanks so much, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Martin Bentsen
Executive Director,
MJB Home Entertainment, LLC
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Hello,
you can match frame your clips : be sure to have the event browser in filmstrip view to recover your in&out.
Then you can tag it as rejected for example, or any keyword you want. Then in the event browser you can choose “show only rejected”, or choose the keyword collection created by choosing a keyword for your unwanted clips. -
I do this two ways.
Sometimes, I gather the clips I wound up not using at the end of the timeline. Then I’ll cut them all and paste them into a project of unused clips. This is relatively quick. And it preserves any changes you may have made to the clips. I sometimes use this unused clips project to cover multiple projects. For me, this is a simple way to gather all the unused clips that I may want to go back to at some point.
Otherwise, you can right click the clip in the timeline, to reveal it in the Event Browser and then assign an unused clip Keyword to the clip or any of the keywords assigned to that clip. This method is probably more of what you’re looking for, but it is a lot slower than simply pasting them into a new project. I use this method when I know I’m going to work with some or many of these clips on another project. Then, having them in a Keyword collection is worth the added time.
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Thank you very much for your responses, they were all very helpful!
Martin Bentsen
Executive Director,
MJB Home Entertainment, LLC
Graphics/Special Effects/Photography/Videographyhttps://www.mjbhomeentertainment.com/
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