I am a footage scrubber. For years, I only edited one show and I know that show very well; scrubbing was no hardship. Last year, I added 2 new shows to my "I'm going to vid the hell out of these" list. I don't have the same fluency with those so I pulled out my lined paper notebook and made log notes on each episode.
This year I've added a number of new sources and am in the process of clipping them into master power bins for Resolve.
The edit starts with the song. It takes 1-3 sessions to trim the song down into something I'm excited about, ideally 2 minutes or less. I'm also thinking about the visuals and doing some pre-editing at this point. Building the subtitle track usually happens here as well.
The actual placing of clips technique I use is...stupid. I tend to do a fresh round of clipping each time I edit, because I'm editing a different subject or character so, I didn't have those things clipped previously. Clipping happens on one timeline. I close up all the gaps and then bring my song to this selects timeline and copy/paste the song so that it repeats for as long as my clips (about 15-20 min worth of clips).
From there, I just watch in real-time. I might get lucky with a clip that falls on a good section of the song right away. Most of the time I'm visualizing which of these clips I'll *really* use for this project and making some preliminary sequences. Usually, I have some clip/lyric/music matches already in mind based on my time editing the song, so I'll grab those right away too.
I make copies of all my round 1 culled clips and move them over to the actual edit timeline. The clips that magically were perfect go where they need to go. The rough sequences are placed and I might do some rough trimming.
Then it's repeat, repeat, repeat: digging through clips that got selected but not used, going back to the source and making new clips, gleefully rewatching a 50% done video over and over again until I realize the vid won't vid itself and I need to get back to work. I don't use markers much in constructing the vid because the audio waves are more visible and I usually have a paper edit to work from.
Depending on how clear the vid idea was to start, start to finish on a full timeline can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Ideally, I have time to do the really fun part which is the frame by frame adjustments. Titles are last - I haven't developed a passion for titling yet.
That was a novel! Anyway, for this check-in specifically, I'm doing the rhythmic editing because I just did an audio layered edit earlier this month independently. Turns out my shiny new HD footage was actually gunking up my edit rig so I learned how to create optimized media (my memory is fuzzy, but I think this is the same as rendering a timeline in Premiere. DaVinci just doesn't do this automatically - it's a process). The other big tech learn was pulling out my old Stream Deck switcher. It's a macro pad that I used to use for Twitch streaming but have now re-keyed with all my Resolve shortcuts - gamechanger.
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Date: 2021-04-19 06:15 pm (UTC)This year I've added a number of new sources and am in the process of clipping them into master power bins for Resolve.
The edit starts with the song. It takes 1-3 sessions to trim the song down into something I'm excited about, ideally 2 minutes or less. I'm also thinking about the visuals and doing some pre-editing at this point. Building the subtitle track usually happens here as well.
The actual placing of clips technique I use is...stupid. I tend to do a fresh round of clipping each time I edit, because I'm editing a different subject or character so, I didn't have those things clipped previously. Clipping happens on one timeline. I close up all the gaps and then bring my song to this selects timeline and copy/paste the song so that it repeats for as long as my clips (about 15-20 min worth of clips).
From there, I just watch in real-time. I might get lucky with a clip that falls on a good section of the song right away. Most of the time I'm visualizing which of these clips I'll *really* use for this project and making some preliminary sequences. Usually, I have some clip/lyric/music matches already in mind based on my time editing the song, so I'll grab those right away too.
I make copies of all my round 1 culled clips and move them over to the actual edit timeline. The clips that magically were perfect go where they need to go. The rough sequences are placed and I might do some rough trimming.
Then it's repeat, repeat, repeat: digging through clips that got selected but not used, going back to the source and making new clips, gleefully rewatching a 50% done video over and over again until I realize the vid won't vid itself and I need to get back to work. I don't use markers much in constructing the vid because the audio waves are more visible and I usually have a paper edit to work from.
Depending on how clear the vid idea was to start, start to finish on a full timeline can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Ideally, I have time to do the really fun part which is the frame by frame adjustments. Titles are last - I haven't developed a passion for titling yet.
That was a novel! Anyway, for this check-in specifically, I'm doing the rhythmic editing because I just did an audio layered edit earlier this month independently. Turns out my shiny new HD footage was actually gunking up my edit rig so I learned how to create optimized media (my memory is fuzzy, but I think this is the same as rendering a timeline in Premiere. DaVinci just doesn't do this automatically - it's a process). The other big tech learn was pulling out my old Stream Deck switcher. It's a macro pad that I used to use for Twitch streaming but have now re-keyed with all my Resolve shortcuts - gamechanger.