DV editing, tips and tricks and shits!
Quick Editing with Adobe Premiere
The following is some tips and tricks of how to get the smooth
flowing going on while chillin' out madly making movies on you
computer. (Why are you chilling out madly, you might say? Because you
are a crazy data-dude.)
Using low-resolution clips or offline files
You can capture at lower resolution, either to save disk space, or to
edit faster than normal. At the end, Premiere will get the original
high-resolution images from the original clips, residing on tape or on
some disk somewhere. Sounds neat (fiffig)? Well, it is! Read on to
find out how this is done. Before you read on, you probably want to
read some everyday computing tips.
Refer to the Adobe Premiere help-text, (Capturing and Importing Source
Clips > Understanding offline and online editing), or read on here. It
is really very simple.
- Capture the clips in lower quality settings.
- Edit the film
- When you're ready to create the final cut, redigitize the video at the
best quality settings.
The third point here seems to be the only tricky one. The best
solution seems to be to create a batch-list for capturing the video in
the first place. When you are done capturing, and editing the
'low-end'-clips, you simply capture again, this time using full
quality, effectively replacing the clips. The timecodes will be the
same, so the editing will no be affected, but the quality of the final
version will. You can even capture only the material that you actually
have used in your final cut. This yields extensive disk saving
utility. Sip you coffee while acknowledging this fact.
Step-by-step list for redigitizing?
As I mentioned, this is the
only tricky subject in offline editing. But it is really very
simple. Do like this to be a bad-ass manual-control-freak:
- Delete the clips that are on your hard drive (the low resolution
clips), or just move them to another location if you are a big sissy.
- Open the project at hand, and when the 'Locate File' dialog box
shows, choose 'Offline All'.
- Open the Batch Capture Window ( File > Capture > Batch Capture )
- Select the clips you want to redigitize from the Project Window
(all of them, presumably), and drag them to the Batch Capture
window. Repeat until satisfied.
- Now, before you continue, be a man and go make yourself a pot of coffee. If you are
female, you can go buy yourself a coffee-latté.
- In the batch capture window, select all the clips, and choose
'Attach Settings' from the Batch Capture window menu.
- With the Batch Capture window active, choose ( File > Save ) ,
type a name for the batch list and click Save.
- Close the project (important). (Or else the files will simply be
added to the project, not replacing the old clips). Sip you coffee
slowly considering the consequenses.
- Click the Capture-button in the Batch-capture window.
- In the Locate File dialog that appears, either select an existing
bin and click Open, or click New, type a file name and click
save. This bin is used to collect you captured clips.
- When the capture is completed, open the project.
- In the Locate File dialog box, locate and select the newly
captured clips from wherever you captured them to. You should have
noted this whilst sipping you coffee slowly.
That was the hard way, dude.
If you want to do this process automatically, you can use this
how-to.
Using the batch-capture mechanism, you can recapture
only the material that you actually used while editing. This is more
cost effective with regards to actual minimizing disk usage.
- With project open, choose (Project > Utilities > Project Trimmer)
- Select 'Create Trimmed Batch List', and deselect 'Copy Trimmed Source Files'.
- Click create project
- Specify the location for the new project based on the trimmed clips
- Specify the location of the batch file (think hard)
- Start capturing.
Given that you were smart enough to capture at full quality this time,
you now have a new project with only the material you have used, at
full quality. Badabim.
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