Counting Cuts in Premiere Tutorial/Question

[openskies2009]

To those who have the Adobe CC.

Throughout the last several years I have heard in the industry, editors pass on their 'bragging rights' to the amount of cuts they have made in their final project.

Thrilled, I wasn't quite sure how to do this in Premiere. Count my cuts/edits until I tested out a theory this morning.

I tested it out on a few edits and it seems to work. Please, anyone correct me if I'm wrong on this. I dont suposse this would include nested sequences or linked comps from adobe after effects.

Export your sequence to a Final Cut Pro XML file.

Open in Adobe Dreamweaver. Automatically Dreamweaver groups the starting and ending tags in the file. I easily saw how the XML file was composed into groups.

I collapsed everything until the <track...> and then it listed several point blank <clipitem...>. This would be the clips in the sequence.

Now all that you need to do is cound inbetween the line numbers for "<clipitem" within Dreamweaver 

[Richard M Knight]

Try exporting an EDL and opening in Excel.

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[openskies2009]

I don't see to export multiple tracks to EDL? My current edit is using 12 tracks

[excited_Genie16B8]

I have heard in the industry, editors pass on their 'bragging rights' to the amount of cuts they have made in their final project.

That's...like bragging about how many times you changed the lens during a shoot, or how often you turned a light on and off.

Utterly meaningless.

[philbrough]

This would be very useful for me. I am making a cut where most shots will have VFX in them. It will be helpful to have a shot number embedded in each cut for VFX numbering purposes. 

[defaultvofa20aqon8g]

No, it's talking about the quality of your work, because you found that many things that could be improved to make the overall project better. How is that like changing lenes during a shoot? It's not even like how many photos you would take (although that's a little closer). 

I you've ever done audio editing you know exactly how much speach is riddle with imperfections, the more edits I have the more "prefect" and "clean" the audio is going to be meaning a better overall product. So yeah, I'd brag about it.

It is also a great way to give you an idea of how long a given edit is going to take. Look at the overall length before cutting, coutn the cuts after, and how long it took you to make all of those cuts on the final product and you have a really good idea of how long and how many cuts you'll need for a given length of audio or video for that matter. Very useful information for a client, especially if you charge hourly.

[JosefJJ]

Woah, cool! Wanna share mine since I just posted this elsewhere to help someone

... wait OMG just realized this post was from 2009!

Anyways, what I did: 

Step #1. On Metadata Display, search then checkmark "Video Usage".

Step#2. In timeline, nest the edit to be counted so that it becomes one clip, then apply Scene Edit Detection. 

Voila, the Video Usage metadata will tell you the number of times that one clip occures in the timeline, equals the number of cuts you did on the actual edit.

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[defaultynbc6waud6d2]

Just got through an hour and a half interview and I was curious about how many cuts I made to just make the interview sound CLEAN. This tip helped me figure out how many, "So, Ya Knows, Umms, Ahhs, and Likes" I cut out of this thing. 

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Select clips and open the Info Panel.