Organizing Timeline/Bins

tjglfr wrote on 5/12/2005, 9:31 AM

I'm planning on editing a short film. The director is shooting multiple angles of the same scenes. Which is the best way to organize the timeline and the bins. I’m sure there are many ways to do this.
Can you give your ideas on you experience?

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rextilleon wrote on 5/12/2005, 12:09 PM

Well I like to keep each camera roll in its own folder. So if you have three cameras shooting in the same scene it would be Scene X Roll 1,--SceneX Roll 2 etc. Then just give them each their own video track labeled accordingly---use Excalibur or Ultimate and you are good to go.

BrianStanding wrote on 5/12/2005, 12:15 PM

I used to have a very definite strategy for organizing things into bins, but the new Media Manager in V6 has me rethinking things a bit.

I'm starting to use Media Manager tags to identify media files based on their inherent characteristics (such as static, pan, zoom, close-up, MS, LS, etc.). I then use the bins to organize media files based on their themes, subjects or other characteristics that are peculiar to how I'm using them in a particular project. More of a fluid "conceptual" organization to help me chunk up a project into manageable bits and string them together into an intelligent narrative.

Grazie wrote on 5/12/2005, 9:47 PM

BRIAN! Woah! . . My kinda thinking too . . .

BS said ( excellent! ): "I'm starting to use Media Manager tags to identify media files based on their inherent characteristics (such as static, pan, zoom, close-up, MS, LS, etc.). I then use the bins to organize media files based on their themes, subjects or other characteristics that are peculiar to how I'm using them in a particular project. More of a fluid "conceptual" organization to help me chunk up a project into manageable bits and string them together into an intelligent narrative."

.. .I thought this was worth restating . . great observation!

Grazie