Is there a way to ease the workload in a project? (PPCS6)

Hi! This has not (yet) become a problem for me, it´s more of a question of understanding how to maintain a more effective workflow

Although I´ve done many projects over the years I have no professional training - I´m a rough result of trial and errors so to speak.

Anyway. I am currently editing a travel documentation from a 3 week visit to Japan. So, there´s a lot of folders and lots of Sequences active in my project.

What I´ve done earlier and doing now is that I first only do the trimming of the clips (no transitions, effects, titles or color correction) and I use sequences to keep it in chapters or blocks (like "day 1" or "visiting Niseko") which I in the end will move to one sequence to get it all in one export.

Now, I can already tell that there´s going to be a lot of clips in this project and here comes my lack of understanding for how the program works.

Are these clips, trimmed only, using any cpu (or other fancy word for being heavy on the workload).

Is it possible, or reason, to "freeze" my edits before I start adding titles, effects and color correction?

I use the word "freeze" because this is what I would do in a music production. I can bounce a copy of the trax I´m not currently working on so when it plays back it only reads a wave file copy of each track instead of processing all the plugins in real-time.

I hope my question makes sense. Have a good one

/joan

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