Vexercise 3 Check In

[lola]

 Hi folks! How is Vexercise 3 treating you? Are you trying the rhythmic editing, the sound editing, or both? Run into any questions/issues/confusions/fun discoveries? Found any inspirational videos or tutorials to share? 

Also, there've been a couple questions about process, specifically about whether people are making subclips, using pancake timelines, or just scrubbing through episodes. What have you been doing so far with the vexercises in terms of clip prep? What's been working for you? (or not working for you? :D) 

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[caramarie]

I'm trying to do the audio editing one (properly this year!) I think it's going okay.... It's pretty out of my ballpark to use source audio -- part of my source-prep process is to strip out the audio, so I had to work out how to get that separately :p

This is my usual clip prep: when I convert the source to my editing codec, I save it out in 2GB sections. This was initially based on what my computer could handle easily, but now it just breaks the source up into useful segments. I bring all my source into Vegas, each episode in its own folder, and then I split the files I wanna use into numbered subclips. First I divide them roughly into scenes, and then for the scenes I want I go through and split the subclip up based on where the cuts in the source are. So I end up with a lot of subclips named things like raisedbywolves-s01e10.05.1.2.

This makes a lot of subclips I won't use, but because everything's kept chronological it's easy to find and grab the things I do want. I just like having everything in order! And it's quite useful for familarising myself with the source too.