Hello all,
Figured I would post my new workflow as it's working really great.
Here is what I do to orgnaize and edit my footage.
I film everything in h264 codec. I then load them into prelude and ingest them and rename the files and put them in their own folders on my HDD hard drive.
Then I go back and I use MPEG Streamclip to trim any clips or make news entirely. I have tested this and trimming or saving new clips does not reduce the quality of the h264 native media. I only do this on clips that are really long and that I know a chunk has to be removed that I would never need to use. This saves space on my HDD. I then have setup a Proxy preset to create Proxy files of my footage as Cineform quality 1 in an SD format with the stretch size selected to fill the screen. This is a very small file size and I put these Proxy files on my SSD all my native media is stored on my HDD. I chose to go with SD as proxy since it is low in file size. Plus I can always turn on and off the proxy to see the original quality when I need to.
This new workflow has been working for for the last two weeks and I'm quite proud.
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