Workflow tip?

rawfa

rawfa

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Hi guys,

Yesterday I directed a 3 minute music video and ended up with like 30 shots from different angles. Since I shot in 2 different locations I decided that it would be easier to edit each location separately (instead of having 30 video tracks to edit on my laptop) and then edit the 2 resulting videos. What I´m wondering is which format to use when I export these 2 videos for editing. I was thinking of using the option "match sequence", which I would think should be more or less the same quality as the original files (shot with a Sony NEX7).

Questions:
- Is this format ok? (I don´t have cineform and I have my doubts my laptop will be able to handle a lossless format fluently)
- Should I export the 2 final videos CCed already?


P.S - I´ve already finished editing the first location and it took me like 2 days. Since I do this as a hobby I only have time during the weekends and maybe a couple of hours when I get back to work during the week. What I´m saying is I´m not going to go back and edit both locations together (other than the time it would take I had enough of a hard time editing 15 video tracks on a 15" laptop.
 
rawfa said:
Since I shot in 2 different locations I decided that it would be easier to edit each location separately (instead of having 30 video tracks to edit on my laptop) and then edit the 2 resulting videos. What I´m wondering is which format to use when I export these 2 videos for editing.
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"Export for editing"????? You're in Premiere, just edit!

What I would do is create a sequence for location A, and edit those clips in that sequence; then another for location B, ditto; then an "overall" sequence which includes the A and B sequences. This is very easy and very efficient in PP, and there will be no generational quality loss.

rawfa said:
I was thinking of using the option "match sequence", which I would think should be more or less the same quality as the original files (shot with a Sony NEX7).
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No, "match sequence" just sets up the frame size and rate correctly. The quality will still depend on what format you export as. But exporting to a video file, just to re-import it and edit it, is kind of absurd. You would need to use a lossless format to avoid quality loss, but even then it's a pointless hassle.

rawfa said:
What I´m saying is I´m not going to go back and edit both locations together (other than the time it would take I had enough of a hard time editing 15 video tracks on a 15" laptop.
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I sympathize, but using nested sequences is the answer. There's no reason you can't nest sequences within sequences within sequences within sequences, to reduce the number of tracks down to 3 or 4 per sequence.

Hope this helps.
 
Many thanks for the tip. It helps me A LOT. I didn´t really know you could import 2 sequences and edit them as individual videos. It makes absolutely perfect sense to work this way.
 
Cool, glad to help! Yes, any sequence can be used as if it was a clip. So you can focus on just one scene, work on it til its perfect, then just use it as if it was a clip. It's a very cool feature.
 
I´ve tried rating your post as very useful but I must have over 50 useful posts to be able to rate it...so just take my word for it...it was VERY useful :)
Thanks!
 
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