My video camera has perhaps 100 separate clips on them over the last 6 months. I want to compile them into a single video. I want to put the date on the lower left each time a clip starts on a different day.
Taking the 100 clips and dragging them onto the timeline is easy enough to do. Can be done by selecting them all and then drag drop. Now here comes my usability problems.
1.) With the 100 clips in the timeline, I cannot find a way to easily determine when the video was taken (comes from a DV tape). If I right click on a clip, and select "Select in Project Media List," I can find it, but doing so for all these clips is time consuming. Is there an easy way?
2.) I want each clip to cross fade into the next one. That's 100 crossfades. Two problems come from this. The first is that if I drag the start of one clip over the end of the previous, I get that cross fade. However, then all the clips to the right are now off by that time. That means I need to drag and reposition all 100. Related to this, even if did keep them aligned, doing this 100 times is tedious. Is there a shortcut?
I basically just want a simply home video with a basic cross fade between clips and the date to appear whenever the video moves to a new day.
Tips on how to speed up this process and make it less prone to human error? Thank you.
Taking the 100 clips and dragging them onto the timeline is easy enough to do. Can be done by selecting them all and then drag drop. Now here comes my usability problems.
1.) With the 100 clips in the timeline, I cannot find a way to easily determine when the video was taken (comes from a DV tape). If I right click on a clip, and select "Select in Project Media List," I can find it, but doing so for all these clips is time consuming. Is there an easy way?
2.) I want each clip to cross fade into the next one. That's 100 crossfades. Two problems come from this. The first is that if I drag the start of one clip over the end of the previous, I get that cross fade. However, then all the clips to the right are now off by that time. That means I need to drag and reposition all 100. Related to this, even if did keep them aligned, doing this 100 times is tedious. Is there a shortcut?
I basically just want a simply home video with a basic cross fade between clips and the date to appear whenever the video moves to a new day.
Tips on how to speed up this process and make it less prone to human error? Thank you.