PLEASE I NEED HELP!!!

[talisac]

gggrrr, im new to the filmaking thing, and mymovies gonna come to quite a long length, im guessing about 45 minutes and how the f*ck to i edit it on premier on a bloody PC, all people have been telling me is,
'ask someone else;'
or 'Be selective about what you use' how the f*ck can i be selective itll just ruin the story!
help please!!!what do i do?

thank you god bless ya all

[belovedmonster]

some more specif questions would help you get some answers...

you need a firewire card firstly
this allows your camera to talk with your computer
you then need to purchase an editing package such as premiere.

If you do that and still get stuck come ask again. If you want advice on which package or whatever then ask again...

[talisac]

yeah i can get hold of a firewire and iv got adobe premier iv filmied it all butthe rushes span over about 6 -hour long tapes, the point is how do i fit all that onto my comp, i havent started yet, but iv only just realised just how big edited film is!!! ( isnt it what 900mb for 3 minutes???)
that means when mines done it will be like 100 gigs!!! gggrrr, is there anything ya can do?

[machead]

matbe you should consider cutting your teeth on a smaller project, maybe a 2 minute short. You'll learn more, and faster and won't have to go through the expense of configuring your system for your present project.

[Yammeryammeryammer]

You don't need to bring all your rough footage onto the computer. I am not familiar with premier, but on all editing systems I've used you can bring in what you need, and delete the rest. It is decidedly more difficult if you are using a non-destructive editing suite, because it will keep things after you cut off and delete them, thereby still using your memory. I have a 60 gig hard drive and often run into memory restraints. One way I used to do editing back in the day on a more primitive computer was by editing in sections, and then exporting in blocks, however big the computer could handle, with no black space added. Worked relatively well. Another solution would be to try and find someone with a larger computer. How much space does your computer have? And how long do you think your project could be, or how short could you make it without destroying it? And then weigh your options.

[belovedmonster]

why on earth do you have 6 hours? did you film a documenty over the course of weeks or something :\

[deanl]

Hey there.

If it's only a 3 minute flick there is no way you need to capture all that footage.

Just sit down with a pen and paper and look through all your footage. Mark down all the in and out points of the takes you love and think you will need.

When you are done just capture the footage you will need and dump the rest.

It's only a three minute flick I bet you wont need to capture any more than 15 minutes worth of footage.

Despin out.

[MatJimMood]

In premiere in the movie capture window you can watch through your tape setting in and out points for each take. These are then stored in the batch capture window. When you have finished logging all the clips on a tape you simply press the record button on the batch capture window and it captures it all for you, as long as you've got an unbroken timecode. This means you can be very selective about what you save to your computer.

If space gets really tight, you could try editing a couple of scenes at a time and then either export them back onto tape or onto a cd and clear your hard drive of the files related to them. Then, when you've editied all your scenes bring them all back onto your computer and put them together.

[Alex]

In theory, you are supposed to be able to import, edit, then export with no loss in quality.

As has been previously stated, I'd build your final project in sections, and DON'T DO ANY LAYERING or fancy compositing ON THE FIRST PASS. Just build it via simple straight cuts.

Once the section is to your liking, dump it to tape, TWICE, not once. Once all of your sections are built, reload them back in.

Since you haven't done any fancy layering or builds on the first pass, you don't have to worry about undoing layered audio or video effects which cannot be undone once the segment is transferred to video tape.

Also, I'd seriously consider getting more hard drive space. And definitely do a short project first before attempting to cut your film.

And remember, partition your boot-up drive, keeping your editing software/applications partitioned separately from anything else you put on that same hard drive.

Sounds to me like all you really need is a good old fashioned Tape to Tape editing system. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[ieatpussyeveryday]

buy another harddrive...internal ones and external ones are cheap now....like 80 GB for 120$$$US....