JRAnderson
Well-known member
Trying to see if there's a smoother way to do things.
Just to put things in context, I do wedding videos and split my work into the various parts of "The Day." So, one section will be pre-wedding footage of the bride and groom getting ready, another for the ceremony, another for the reception, etc. These become the component parts -- the scenes if you will -- of the finished movie. Depending on the length of the project, I could have more than a dozen sections. Each section is its own veg file that gets saved with its cut clips into its own folder. When I'm ready, I string all the veg files together into a single master, make whatever tweaking is necessary and render it out.
I know there's a lot of ways to skin a cat on Vegas, but is that the way most people tend to work on projects like this that are 30-90 minutes long?
For what it's worth, I never use media bins, and frankly don't understand how they're any better/different than simple folders in explorer. Perhaps if each section was longer or I needed to organize multiple takes for each scene...but I don't.
A specific question: I'll typically want to save a few clips (trimmed down events) from each section for the highlights reel. I thought this might be a good use for the media bins, until I realized they don't carry over between projects. I've just been saving the clipped event to another folder, but was wondering if there's a better way.
I'm really trying to streamline my workflow, so any perspective from fellow wedding shooters/vegas editors would be much appreciated.
Just to put things in context, I do wedding videos and split my work into the various parts of "The Day." So, one section will be pre-wedding footage of the bride and groom getting ready, another for the ceremony, another for the reception, etc. These become the component parts -- the scenes if you will -- of the finished movie. Depending on the length of the project, I could have more than a dozen sections. Each section is its own veg file that gets saved with its cut clips into its own folder. When I'm ready, I string all the veg files together into a single master, make whatever tweaking is necessary and render it out.
I know there's a lot of ways to skin a cat on Vegas, but is that the way most people tend to work on projects like this that are 30-90 minutes long?
For what it's worth, I never use media bins, and frankly don't understand how they're any better/different than simple folders in explorer. Perhaps if each section was longer or I needed to organize multiple takes for each scene...but I don't.
A specific question: I'll typically want to save a few clips (trimmed down events) from each section for the highlights reel. I thought this might be a good use for the media bins, until I realized they don't carry over between projects. I've just been saving the clipped event to another folder, but was wondering if there's a better way.
I'm really trying to streamline my workflow, so any perspective from fellow wedding shooters/vegas editors would be much appreciated.
