Best way to Edit one long clip ?

will-3 wrote on 8/6/2003, 8:45 PM

I'm working on my first Vegas project... and using it as a learning tool.

I have a 10 minute video - a TV newscaster's auditon tape... supplied to me on VHS.

I converted it to DV & imported it as one long avi file using Vegas.

It is a 10 minute clip but made up of a lot of short takes of the reporter on different stories and in different settings. Vegas imported the whole thing as one long event or clip.

My first thought was to simply use the S key to split the clip into a series of the original short takes and then start to work...

But now I'm wondering if I should have "imported" it section by section so no individual avi file was very long...

Is there a dis-advantage to just splitting up the original 10 minute take into a series of individual events using vegas... or would having a bunch of small avi files be better?

In either case... why?

Thanks for any help.

Will

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:08 PM

For those of us who are use to clips that are one or two hours long, 10 minutes doesn't seem much like a "long" clip :-)

Working with it on the timeline using splits is just fine. You can also open it in Trimmer, define the takes you want, and pop them into the timeline.

Gary

BillyBoy wrote on 8/6/2003, 9:28 PM

Its really a matter of personal choice. The end result is the same. One camp likes the trimmer, another edits from the timeline only. Some do both. It depends on what other editor you have a history with, and what you find more logical. There is no right or wrong way. Do what's more comfortable.