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Hi All,

I wanted to know if anyone out there has a good work flow for speeding up video editing. By that I mean a process to save time when video editing. I edit wedding videos in Traditional, Semi and full MTV styles. Does anyone have a good systematic way for this type of video editing work? All thoughts and ideas welcome.

Thanks In Advance

Nunk

To speed up the process I suppose you could use one of the Wizards. I have never used them, but I guess that is what they're for.

I assume you do your wedding videos professionally, so I know time is money. However, in my opinion, to do a video well is neither easy or fast. That's the nature of the beast.

Yes I agree,

I was looking for a way of working smarter really! Smarter so to cut down the overall video editing time but still keep the quality. I have a fast PC, What I really need is some process improvement techniques to speed up the process. So if anyone has any ideas please share your thoughts with me.

Thanks Nunk

I find things go quicker if you spend some time gathering your thoughts and ideas before sitting down to edit. There's always some room for spontenaity but I fond that if I have a good idea of how I want things to look I can gather all the elements I'll need. Stills, sounds effects, decoration art.

I sometimes like to use famous quotes in my work so I have a good thought about that too and do some google searching...

Anyway...the idea is to have a solid idea of what you want before editing.

I put all these elements in a folder with a project name...that way I know where everthing is.

When I start VS I create Library folders and start loading things into the Library...If I need to then I set up the Working File in VS so eveything I capture goes there.

How one edits really is up to individuals.

I like to leave the captured video as a whole one thumbnail in the library rather than in several little scenes. I then move that thumbnail into the video track and look through it once...making Time Code notes of the really good stuff...I'm not shot listing fully. Once that is done...I copy it back into the Library so I have twi identicaly thumbnails.

One of these will become the thumbnail I edit from...for me I find that adjusting the in and out points of the thumbnail in the library then draging that to the video track as the easiest way. Especially for video on parties or events that span the whole day. I use the second thumbnail as a reference so that I don;t have to change where I am up to in editing from the first thumbnail....probably sounds confusing now hehe.

I use Smartsound quick tracks for music as I want the music to fit my final edit

I'm probably suggesting something you already practise.

My workflow starts while filming. So I try to register my takes in a way that it's most fit for the editing. No more use of tapes, short cuts 5-6- seconds (besides ceremonies etc.). And even then much time is needed with editing. I use pictures mixed with the video. The pictures are generated automatic into dynamic mpeg's with muvee. A real time saver.

Every "block" is a different project in VS. Then in my final project I combine the underlying sub-projects so no intermediate rendering is needed. Then I can add some effects like B/Wand slow motionas if they were different clips. Last the soundtrack is added and rendering the whole.

Jean-Pierre

Jean Pierre has the right approach. I'm actually on my way to film a wedding right now. the whole trick is to get there early enough to get all your stock footage, and then some.

then as you shoot, think of how it's going to fit into the end result.

And finally, load up all the clips, in order and play them as a string a couple of times to get a feel for what you filmed and start taking notes of the shots that are really great.

once you're done with this, I grab a notepad and pen and write down the file names, and brief descriptions of the contents that I will want to reuse later.

The other thong I like to do is have a sound recorder near the speaker to record the WHOLE ceremony's sounds. and mix those out of synch with the actual video I'm putting together, until I mix it with the actual shot.

I usually count 1 to 1.5 hours of editing time per MINUTE of output film. I used to be much faster with tapes and my old gear but now a lot of it is driven by my computer and the fact that I'm still learning the software. I should be able to bring it down to 30-45 minutes per.

As black lab put it

to do a video well is neither easy or fast.

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Good luck.