How do you "extract" or rough cut live event footage?

[filmguy123]

Say you took footage from an event or camp or reception or whatever, that you want to edit into a highlight montage. Perhaps you have an hour of footage to go through.

I find it tedious to open each file in the viewer, name it, mark in/out points, etc. This is fine for planned projects, like an independent film or music video, but I find it inefficient for live coverage.

I have a system in which I rough cut this, BUT, I was wondering - maybe someone out there has a better system. Maybe a combination of all our methods would work best.

So please share how you rough cut that kind of footage. here is what I do:

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When I rough cut, I'll put all my source files per section or tape into a folder, then drag that folder to the sequence, which lays everything in V1. Then I scrub/drag through and use ctrl+V to cut the good stuff out, and bring the good stuff up to v2. then I duplicate that sequence, delete V1 (the bad stuff) and bring V2 back down, leaving only all the good clips, already cut properly. Then I can just drag from those...

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However, I was wondering, is there a better way to do this? Using labels, descriptors? Something else?

How do you cut/extract this kind of footage?? Please share!

 

[filmguy123]

no one has some tips??

 

[MikeWilkinson]

This is how I do it.

Start tape capture.
Go get a snack.
When tape has captured (a single clip) load it into the viewer window. I hit LL (playback at x2 speed) and then hit I/O to grab parts that I like.
The parts I like I drag onto the timeline until i've gone through the entire clip.
I usually place clips on different video track on the timeline according to the style of shot, or composition (CU vs. wide) or something like that.

 

[kgimedia]

I thought I replied to this but I don't see it. My response was very much inline with the one above this one. Especially if you shot the footage you should know basically what you have. No need the log or clip before capture.