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[Meifesto]

I only keep footage from the last 12 months, although have kept a few other vids that were special to me. I doubt I'll watch them again, and if I did, I'd do so on YouTube. I only keep the last 12 months content in case I get around to recording a new intro trailer for the channel.

I might start to go and do this as well.

It does remove a whole lot of footage (roughly 5 or 6 years worth of), but helps clean things up.
Might just keep the editted endproduct for a bit longer. But the raw footage massive delete will clear up all the space i need.... I hope

 

[Drakhen99]

I might start to go and do this as well.

It does remove a whole lot of footage (roughly 5 or 6 years worth of), but helps clean things up.
Might just keep the editted endproduct for a bit longer. But the raw footage massive delete will clear up all the space i need.... I hope

I am keeping the rendered videos because they have the quality that redownloading from YT will lose. If I want to do a "best of" clip show, I'd rather have the closest thing to source as I can.

Along the same lines, I should go check the front door ... I think another 1TB SSD just arrived ... now to find an open USB port to plug it into!

-John

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I ditch all the raw stuff, just keep the edited stuff.

 

[Moto Mengy]

Last year I bought a 5TB external HD to store my old video files and it's worked great. I think it will last me for many years until I fill it, and at that point I'll simply start deleting the old stuff.

 

[scooterwuf]

I’m a digital hoarder. I’m on my 15th external with the last five being 4 TB, but they’re not all filled with motovlog footage, but a collection of my teaching, producing, film and an animation work as well.

Still, I have trouble throwing away work. I’m sure it’s a ligit psylogical issue

- Wolf

 

[LandyVlad]

This thread demonstrates 2 things.
1. None of my timelines are anywhere near that complex.
2. None of you use 'compound clips;

 

[Drakhen99]

This thread demonstrates 2 things.
1. None of my timelines are anywhere near that complex.
2. None of you use 'compound clips;

1. No doubt. I get way more complicated than my AVD, CTR, or # of views requires.
2. I use Compound Clips occasionally, but only where necessary. True, it would clean up my timeline a lot.

-John

 

[Theodor]

This thread demonstrates 2 things.
1. None of my timelines are anywhere near that complex.
2. None of you use 'compound clips;

I don''t think any of the posted timelines have been complex enough, to actually justify using compound clips. That would just add an extra step, to the same editing process, would it not?

 

[Drakhen99]

I don''t think any of the posted timelines have been complex enough, to actually justify using compound clips. That would just add an extra step, to the same editing process, would it not?

I may have actually had one or two in my posted timeline... I know I had one recently.

I wanted to use my GoPro Hero 8 footage in a DVE/PiP scenario, but I always apply color correction to it, so I created a Compound Clip of the Hero 8/Color Correction objects and then applied DVE in Resolve to that.

You're right though - it's an extra step and can be a PITA.

-John

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I don't know what compound clips are?

 

[Drakhen99]

I don't know what compound clips are?

Not sure if serious? But, In Davinci Resolve, and I'm assuming other editors, Compound Clips are where you combine multiple clips into 1.

-John

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Not sure if serious? But, In Davinci Resolve, and I'm assuming other editors, Compound Clips are where you combine multiple clips into 1.

-John

I was being serious am still confused though, I'll try googling it

 

[Hippo-Drones]

.... yeah I don't think I can do them on my editing software

 

[Theodor]

.... yeah I don't think I can do them on my editing software

It might work a different way, or be called something else. Lets say you work one section of the video at a time, but you don't render them, but instead import the projects files as source material in to the main edit. The program would show them as a single clip. You can still open the projects separately and tweak each section, without going in to such details, in the main edit.

 

[Drakhen99]

Compound clips are great if you want to treat multiple clips or adjustment layers as one clip, but you have to be careful if you want to transition from one to another, or a regular clip to a compound one... in Resolve you need the extra frames as handles, which aren't there any more.

-John

 

[LandyVlad]

My compound lip comment was meant tongue in cheek.

They can be useful but in most YT cases not necessary.

 

[Skipshift]

I think on average my videos run 3+3 or maybe 4+3 tracks. If there isn't a clip in track 1-3 on the timeline I will move a clip from track 4 to track 1-3 just to keep it clean.
Is there any benefit to leaving them scattered across so many tracks?

 

[Theodor]

Depends of the way you like to organize things. Some people like to keep one source on one track. I personally also use only few tracks, in most cases. The example I had here, was caused by layering stuff on top of each other, that had to be visible, at the same time. In another words, animations and effects. I don't usually do those.

 

[Skipshift]

Makes sense. The most I've ended up with was 4 or 5 video layers for the purpose of multiple graphics and titles layered during a section of video. Otherwise I'm very much k.i.s.s. with my edits.

 

[Meifesto]

This thread demonstrates 2 things.
1. None of my timelines are anywhere near that complex.
2. None of you use 'compound clips;

No idea what 'compound clips' are i think

But this thread also shows me that i'm not using Davinci to its full extend...
Although that might be a future topic/video in its own xD