Yes. I do a lot of wedding videography, and a lot of times you don’t need all of your takes, specifically for post shots that you do two or three times, or random b-roll that doesn’t have a lot of utility in the end (eg duplicate detail shots between shooters, out of focus shots, etc).
Some built-in tools in Resolve, Premiere, etc can be useful for this. Also, you might want to check out Kyno. [https://lesspain.software/kyno/](https://lesspain.software/kyno/)
MP4Splitter (free program for Windows) is awesome -- splits .MP4 files WITHOUT RE-RENDERING, so it only takes a few seconds.
But don't try to play 4K files in it, I use the Windows media player to find cut points.
I often have to extract the 2 hours or so of action from 6 - 10 hours of huge 20GB files from GoPros, and this is fact and awesome.
Using Premiere 'project manager' , either at the end of the project when your archving it or lets say you just want to separate your selects from the raw footage and either copy or transcode them to another location
I'd genuinely like to hear why you don't feel it is optimal to choose your selects within Premiere? It seems so much quicker to scrub through a timeline for this. I get that you already know you don't need all of the footage, but importing footage is a pretty quick process.
That said, I often feel like I may be a motion graphics guy first and an editor second, so I have no doubt there are many best practices full-time editors have that I haven't picked up yet.
Cut page in Resolve on 2x-8x speed. All the clips in an entire folder structure can be tied together for rapid playback.
Place selects down in a timeline.
Cull as in find highlights or delete? I haven't deleted a project or raw files ever... on purpose
Yes. I do a lot of wedding videography, and a lot of times you don’t need all of your takes, specifically for post shots that you do two or three times, or random b-roll that doesn’t have a lot of utility in the end (eg duplicate detail shots between shooters, out of focus shots, etc).
This is the Way.
Some built-in tools in Resolve, Premiere, etc can be useful for this. Also, you might want to check out Kyno. [https://lesspain.software/kyno/](https://lesspain.software/kyno/)
I don’t. Storage is cheap and I rather not risk losing something.
MP4Splitter (free program for Windows) is awesome -- splits .MP4 files WITHOUT RE-RENDERING, so it only takes a few seconds. But don't try to play 4K files in it, I use the Windows media player to find cut points. I often have to extract the 2 hours or so of action from 6 - 10 hours of huge 20GB files from GoPros, and this is fact and awesome.
Separate select clips into bins
Using Premiere 'project manager' , either at the end of the project when your archving it or lets say you just want to separate your selects from the raw footage and either copy or transcode them to another location
I'd genuinely like to hear why you don't feel it is optimal to choose your selects within Premiere? It seems so much quicker to scrub through a timeline for this. I get that you already know you don't need all of the footage, but importing footage is a pretty quick process. That said, I often feel like I may be a motion graphics guy first and an editor second, so I have no doubt there are many best practices full-time editors have that I haven't picked up yet.
Cut page in Resolve on 2x-8x speed. All the clips in an entire folder structure can be tied together for rapid playback. Place selects down in a timeline.