Taky, I used to do the same with big clips: manipulate them in the
timeline. But slicing with the razor tool and dragging beginning and
ending points of clips on the timeline is a lot of work and it's hard
to be precise. I find that the sub-clip tools in the source window
are much easier to use and make my work faster.
Here's how I use subclips in the source window:
1. Double click the master clip to open it in the source window.
2. Play the master clip back in the source window. (Keyboard
shortcuts help: Press L to play forward, again to go faster, K to
stop, J to go in reverse, again to go faster in reverse. Press the
left and right cursor arrows to move precisely one frame back or
forward. Hold down to play in either direction.)
3. Press "I" at the beginning of a subclip to mark the In point.
4. Press "O" at the end of the subclip to mark the Out point.
5. Position the cursor in the timeline wherever I want the subclip to go.
6. Press , (comma) to insert the subclip in the timeline at the
cursor location, or press . (period) to overlay the subclip in the
timeline at the cursor location.
There are controls at the bottom of the source window that do all of
this, but the keyboard shortcuts make it much faster and simpler.
I was amazed at how much faster my work went with subclips and how
much easier it was to be frame-by-frame accurate than it was slicing
and dicing in the timeline.
Instead of sending a subclip straight to the timeline, you can also
just drag it into the project window to save it as a subclip there.
Then you can organize subclips into folders. If you want to
storyboard, you can turn on storyboard view for a folder and drag the
subclips in the order you want, then import the whole storyboard into
the timeline.
One other useful sub-clip tool: the Toggle Take Audio & Video button
at the lower right of the controls at the bottom of the source
window. As you click it, it toggles through "Audio & Video," "Audio
Only," and "Video Only." Its setting controls what part of the
subclip Premiere sends to the timeline or project window when you ask
to insert, overlay, or save a subclip.
A lot of the video I use in the timeline I have to get rid of its
audio track since I overlay it with music or separate audio. It takes
time to select the clip, right-click to separate audio and video, and
then select the audio and delete it. With subclips, I just set the
toggle to "Video Only," select my in and out points, and
automatically drop just the video into the timeline.
I'm sure there's more you can do with sub-clips, but this is how I
find them useful.
Mike Boom
At 10:01 AM 10/24/2007, Taky Cheung wrote:
>Mike,
>
>I worked a similar way. I captured a whole hour tape to AVI or .MPEG
>(for HD). Drag the clip to the timeline and use the razor tool to
>cut them into smaller clips. Just then manipulate them on the
>timeline. It works fine this way.
>
>I still don't see much advantage of making subclips.... hmm....
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