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May 22, 2017
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Is there a CC feature or program for video culling?

  • May 22, 2017
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I'd like to know if there is a program or a feature within any adobe program that allows me to load the raw video file(s) from as SD card of my gopro and select which pieces I want to keep as individual files, marking in/out/ and naming. And then once I'm done marking the good sections it will export those parts to my harddrive as individual files for later editing.

Kind of like Photo Mechanic or Lightroom import but for large video files from which I only want to pull select parts without filling my harddrive up with huge videos with only 10-20% good footage in each. !

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Correct answer Mylenium

No. That is also quite generally not how video editing works even in the professional world. The source material is sacred and left unscathed. If at all, on-camera-editing duplicates such clips or creates references to the original, which in your case merely shifts the problem from one storage device to another. You can't avoid having to copy and move around your full source files at some point. Even if you use them directly off the card, e.g. Premiere Pro or On Location will create locally cached versions for them and only then do you ever get the chance to define in- and out-points and create new master/ sub-clips from the selection. As much as you may not like it, the answer is not to dance around and look for ways to avoid the issue, the answer is to simply buy larger disk drives, which in a day and age where you can get 3 terabyte drives for 150 Euros should be a total no-brainer if you are serious about video editing.

Mylenium

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Peru Bob
Peru Bob
Adobe Expert
September 7, 2024

@Jake.pf 

You can do that with Shutter Encoder:

https://www.shutterencoder.com/

Mylenium
MyleniumCorrect answer
Brainiac
May 22, 2017

No. That is also quite generally not how video editing works even in the professional world. The source material is sacred and left unscathed. If at all, on-camera-editing duplicates such clips or creates references to the original, which in your case merely shifts the problem from one storage device to another. You can't avoid having to copy and move around your full source files at some point. Even if you use them directly off the card, e.g. Premiere Pro or On Location will create locally cached versions for them and only then do you ever get the chance to define in- and out-points and create new master/ sub-clips from the selection. As much as you may not like it, the answer is not to dance around and look for ways to avoid the issue, the answer is to simply buy larger disk drives, which in a day and age where you can get 3 terabyte drives for 150 Euros should be a total no-brainer if you are serious about video editing.

Mylenium

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Jake.pf
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September 6, 2024

I can't agree with this mindset. Especially if he doesn't want to keep the other useless footage that will pointlessly be taking up space. He can very well jump into a premiere pro session and cut out the excess and export as a lossless clip of the original. OP could also use Davinci Resolve for free to do this as well. Unnecessary storage usage is kind of inefficient IMHO. Might as well save the storage if you can and not fill it up and waste money on buying more drives when you could've been using your current drives to store actually useful media.

kglad
kglad
Adobe Expert
September 6, 2024

it's not a mindset.  it's a statement of facts.

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