Behind the Scenes: Organizing Multiple Video Clips
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 8/3/2016 1:00:00 AM
Here's a quick way YouTube Creators can organize multiple clips without creating separate files for each take.
When I first started creating YouTube videos, one of the hardest things was trying to organize my footage. This is particularly useful when all your clips look the same in the thumbnail, and you're looking for a specific clip.
Whether you're trying to shoot a bunch of daily videos like I do, or you simply want to make one video with a lot of separate clips, it's important that you at least create some kind of numbered shot list, so that you at least know the sequence of your clips. In my case, I go one extra step, as you can see in the video, by holding up cards with large numbers written on them to match the shot list.
This isn't too different from what movie makes have been doing for nearly 100 years, when they hold up a clap board with scene and take numbers before each clip. It makes the job of the video editor a lot easier because you can see the numbers in the thumbnails in your video editing software.
You can also apply this technique to keep track of alternate takes of the same scene. With each take, you hold up the next number, then write down the ones you like best for easy locating later.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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