Hello
I need to edit a little bit of video for a web project. I'm not a video guy but I did play around with Premiere in college. I've downloaded the trial and I can find my way around well enough but I don't really understand the underlying metaphors to decide on a workflow/methodology. Here's what I've done so far …
* I have 15 minutes of rushes (single clip) with a stereo audio track recorded in camera
* I brought that into Premiere and created a sequence from the parameters of that clip
* I have a 15 minute WAV file that is recorded from a better mic than the in camera one
* I brought that into the sequence on a new audio track
* I lined up the video and WAV files (matching by eye/ear is close enough for my purposes)
* I unlinked the original clip from it's audio, deleting that audio, and then linking the new audio to it.
* There were bits in the video that definitely weren't needed (me walking in front of camera etc) so I razor-track'd them out and filled the gaps by dragging the cut parts next to one another
So now I have a sequence of the original clip cut into several parts. Here's what I need to do with this material
* 'Cross-fade' between any edits. I've worked that out - overlap video clips on same track and use 'cross-dissolve'
* I need to go through the 13 minutes of remaining footage finding short bits of footage that I want to use (might be from a few seconds in length to a minute at the most)
* I then want to build a four or five minute film that is a composite of any sequence or number of those parts
So I'm not sure how to best organise myself. I might repeat some bits. They won't necessarily appear in the correct order. For example there's a bit right at the end that I want to use at the beginning.
What's the suggested workflow? Should I turn every edit into a sequence so I have like a 'palette' in the project window from which I can build my composite in a new sequence?
Thanks
Jim
I need to edit a little bit of video for a web project. I'm not a video guy but I did play around with Premiere in college. I've downloaded the trial and I can find my way around well enough but I don't really understand the underlying metaphors to decide on a workflow/methodology. Here's what I've done so far …
* I have 15 minutes of rushes (single clip) with a stereo audio track recorded in camera
* I brought that into Premiere and created a sequence from the parameters of that clip
* I have a 15 minute WAV file that is recorded from a better mic than the in camera one
* I brought that into the sequence on a new audio track
* I lined up the video and WAV files (matching by eye/ear is close enough for my purposes)
* I unlinked the original clip from it's audio, deleting that audio, and then linking the new audio to it.
* There were bits in the video that definitely weren't needed (me walking in front of camera etc) so I razor-track'd them out and filled the gaps by dragging the cut parts next to one another
So now I have a sequence of the original clip cut into several parts. Here's what I need to do with this material
* 'Cross-fade' between any edits. I've worked that out - overlap video clips on same track and use 'cross-dissolve'
* I need to go through the 13 minutes of remaining footage finding short bits of footage that I want to use (might be from a few seconds in length to a minute at the most)
* I then want to build a four or five minute film that is a composite of any sequence or number of those parts
So I'm not sure how to best organise myself. I might repeat some bits. They won't necessarily appear in the correct order. For example there's a bit right at the end that I want to use at the beginning.
What's the suggested workflow? Should I turn every edit into a sequence so I have like a 'palette' in the project window from which I can build my composite in a new sequence?
Thanks
Jim
