Organizing Your Footage

When editing large amounts of video clips, the first step should always be to mark the various clips. When the clips are marked before the editing begins, the whole process is sped up. Marking clips is important because your clips could be easily lost if not marked properly. In the video shown, he describes using different color labels if show what a clip contains. By using different colored icons, you're able to easily distinguish between different clips meanings. He also showed how to use bins to organize different kinds of clips. By using bins, audio and video are able to separated into different chunks to be used later while editing. These different skills are vital when editing various video projects.