It Gets Old

[burlyjack]

Do you ever spend so much time on editing a video that by the time you're done with it, you're tired of seeing it?

I've spent the majority of the day editing my first episode of a bike restoration. I had to end up going through about two hours of footage, decide what was good, what was bad, change this up, change that, cut this..... Well you know how it goes.

All in all I ended up with a 17 min episode but man, that was about a pain in the butt. I think it's one of my best videos but I'm tired of seeing it lol. It's a labor of love

 

[lupin]

Once my videos are edited I watch them one time once they are uploaded then I never watch again.

I'm almost at the point where I'm even thinking of deleting the raw footage and just keeping the edited video.

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I tend to get rid of the raw footage as soon as I've uploaded and proof watched saves space on my hard drive.
I have found some parts of videos I get sick of by the time I think it is ready to upload. I go with the thought if I find it annoying then others will so delete it. Ive spent hours editing some vids to not like the end result and have deleted the whole edit and had to start again. That is kinda frustrating lol

 

[burlyjack]

I tend to get rid of the raw footage as soon as I've uploaded and proof watched saves space on my hard drive.
I have found some parts of videos I get sick of by the time I think it is ready to upload. I go with the thought if I find it annoying then others will so delete it. Ive spent hours editing some vids to not like the end result and have deleted the whole edit and had to start again. That is kinda frustrating lol

Yeah I've scrapped quite a few vlogs because of that. It's really frustrating when I'm in an awesome spot and getting some great footage but I'm droning on about absolutely nothing lol.

 

[burlyjack]

Once my videos are edited I watch them one time once they are uploaded then I never watch again.

I'm almost at the point where I'm even thinking of deleting the raw footage and just keeping the edited video.

After I'm done editing I delete raw footage. I don't really have the space to save all of it considering I use my camera primarily for a traffic cam.

This one wasn't a vlog, it's a series I'm doing. I had to do a lot of trimming and cutting in clips were I wasn't talking, messed up, etc. Also tried syncing up music with certain parts of the videos.

Typically my vlogs are mostly raw footage with a little trimming here and there so I don't go through it too much. It's just one of those things where it is what it is

 

[DorkyRoad]

I'm saving raw footage right now but I think mostly because I haven't gone in to delete it yet.

At first I thought I was saving it for a blooper reel or because I would go back and find some "hidden gems," but really
1. I will never have time to go back and rewatch all that raw footage and
2. If it was any good in the first place, I would have put it in the video already

So, yeah, I'll probably go delete it all like right now.

edit: HOLY CRAP it was like 2TB, and I've only been at this 2 months.

 

[SighBored]

If you are saving old footage to make a compilation or etc you should label in the video filename itself, the time stamp and what you want from that video for the compilation, otherwise if you just keep the raw without any predetermined idea why you are keeping it, most likely you won't re-use it since you can't remember what's on that video which you wanted to use.

I usually delete raw once done and keep those I plan to use for compilation with proper timestamp+description and in a dedicated folder.

 

[scooterwuf]

I'm too much of a film maker to delete stuff. I'm on my 11th terabyte HD. I'm getting better with my file management, so that may be why I archive everything. But, yeah, I'm editing something right now and I can't say I'm super happy with it. Feels long, but it it could be because I've been looking at it for two weeks. Things aren't snapping into place like I want so I don't have that grinning moment. Breaks help. Might play some multi-player Halo, kill, score, win then go back with a cleared mental pallet.

Edit, walk away, repeat. That tends to work for me.

- Wuf

 

[lupin]

I recently had one video that I was playing with for weeks. In the end I deleted the whole thing, went back to my normal 10-15 minute edit and I'm much happier with the result.

 

[DorkyRoad]

If you are saving old footage to make a compilation or etc you should label in the video filename itself, the time stamp and what you want from that video for the compilation, otherwise if you just keep the raw without any predetermined idea why you are keeping it, most likely you won't re-use it since you can't remember what's on that video which you wanted to use.

I usually delete raw once done and keep those I plan to use for compilation with proper timestamp+description and in a dedicated folder.

Yeah, that's smart. I need to be more proactive like that.

Still, though, if something is good enough for a future compilation, I usually just put it in the edited video, so for me at this point it probably makes the most sense to just save the final product to reedit later on...

 

[burlyjack]

I recently had one video that I was playing with for weeks. In the end I deleted the whole thing, went back to my normal 10-15 minute edit and I'm much happier with the result.

I have done that more than I care to admit lol. It's sort of like drawing, what's in my head never gets on the paper.

 

[burlyjack]

Editing is definitely the hard part of vlogging or even just producing any remotely interesting video.

I only spend a couple of hours editing tho because I have other stuff to do. (And lazy)
Method:
1) Quickly watch though all the footage and rename the clips with good bits. (In QT, Often fast forward)
2) Drop all the marked clips in Vegas Pro media library
3) Grab some music. I usually have an idea of what I want to do but its generally the same crap.
4) Drop clips into timeline and chop roughly to good bits so have rough timing for entire thing.
5) Refine edit to match music and control length. (Extend music if too short)
6) Done

I don't keep raw footage unless there's something special in there.

I usually don't label raw video but my work flow for a typical vlog follows the same pattern. However this was a special occasion so I was trying to up the production value .

As far as storing raw video, I like how DorkyRoad put it, if it was good it would have made it into the video to begin with. If i want to do a compilation I have a file of all my uploads saved to thumb drive for now. I'll just cut and trim those

 

[SighBored]

Yeah, that's smart. I need to be more proactive like that.

Still, though, if something is good enough for a future compilation, I usually just put it in the edited video, so for me at this point it probably makes the most sense to just save the final product to reedit later on...

The reason I don't crop the raw for the parts I want to for later is because I feel like I'm doing double work, since I need to render the cropped version, and another render for the compilation.. But if disk space is crucial, you can do it that way, spend a little bit more time overall on the double renderings in the long run.

 

[scooterwuf]

Since I've only been doing this for a couple of months I may come to the point where I will eventually delete things. I just shot something yesterday that looked like shit. Fortunately, I had shot something similar a few days before that turns out to be much better and I'm using that instead.

- wuf