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Save Reaction Shots to a bin?
I’m starting to do larger projects with SV Pro 9 – this time I have about 4 hours of footage for a very short movie and there are a lot of different takes for each scene.
With a clip on the timeline I go through it and discover, for example, a really nice reaction shot from one of the actors. I want to be able to store that snippet along with other reaction shots from the same actor so that when I need to, I can simply go through them all for the right one to use.
At the moment I’m cutting the reaction shot and dropping it onto a “spare” video track and keeping them all there to browse later. But it’s cumbersome, especially since there are several actors and each with their own video track of reaction shots.
Is there a way I can use the mdeia bins for this? Is it possible, in other words, to find, store and later access short snippets into media bins?
I don’t want to have to go through the hassle (and extra disk space needed) of creating sub-clips and (essentially) duplicating the media itself.
How do others handle this side of editing? Perhaps I’m simply going about this in all the wrong way!
Cheers
Sean James Sutton – an English actor & filmmaker in Italy.
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I rarely need to do this, but here is how I would approach it.
First, remember that everything on the timeline is an event – not a clip. Your clips are in the Project Media window and the events on the timeline are pointers to the media. You can have an unlimited number of events on the timeline, all pointing to the one media (clip) in the Project Media. (Most editing is one event per media clip which is how events and clips seem to be interchangeable).It sounds like what you want to do is make subclips. To do this, you need to cut the event on the timeline into smaller events that you want to turn into a subclip.
You might want to make a copy of the track where you want to extract subclips. Then when you’re finished making the subclips just delete the track that you chopped into separate events. This way your original track is unchanged.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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That is a possibility but there are *loads* of reactions shots and making subclips is a bit of a laborious process; it’s a pity one can’t drag a clip from the timeline into a bin.
And also, correct me if I’m wrong, but creating subclips actually copies the media and this is going to use up disk space.
If it were possible I was after a solution which would (effectively) store a reference to the region in a bin and show that particular region only (not the whole clip).
an English actor and filmmaker in Italy
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[Seán Sutton] “a pity one can’t drag a clip from the timeline into a bin”
There are no clips on the timeline.
A subclip doesn’t copy the media, it just creates another pointer to the source media. It is exactly what you want – a reference to a region of the original media, not a copy of the media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Aha!
I thought it physically copied the media so I’ve been avoiding them all this time!
Great — I shall attack my computer and see what I can do with them now!
Cheers!
an English actor and filmmaker in Italy
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> “it’s a pity one can’t drag a clip from the timeline into a bin”
You can suggest this feature to SCS team> “And also, correct me if I’m wrong, but creating subclips actually copies the media and this is going to use up disk space.”
No, subclips are virtual clips, stored only in your project
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