Cutting down raw video files and exporting with markers.

[james223140651clb]

I'm trying to do something that seems like it should be fairly basic, and I've come up with a workable method, but I am hoping that there's an easier solution. I record my videos podcast-style, and with all the takes, the video might be an hour or more long, but I only have about ten minutes of useable video. Because of disk space, I do not want to keep all the extra footage. I export the shorter footage, however, in doing so, I lose all my cuts. The easiest solution seems to be to put a marker at every cut and export the footage with the markers. However, this requires manually putting a marker at every single cut before I export. While, this is not a terrible process. I'm hoping for a better way to streamline this. Is there a way to automatically apply markers at all the cuts? Or just a better process in general? For shortening these videos. 

[Warren Heaton]

@james223140651clb 

As far as I am aware, there is no way to automatically apply markers at cuts, but they can be automatically applied at scene edits.

Extract (ripple delete) the segments that you don't want to keep, insert three seconds of Black Video between each of the remaining takes, and then export at the settings you want for your interim source file.  Upon reimporting that, run Scene Edit Detection (Clip > Scene Edit Detection) with the options set to apply a marker at each scene.  When you're conident that you have what you need from the original recording, that file can be deleted.

Could this work for what you're trying to do?

- Warren