Save clips separately from original file

[n_minoo]

Hello everyone,

Premiere pro newbie here.

I was wondering if there is any way I could save the clips I've trimmed in my projects as a separate file from the original video.

I'm basically importing a bunch of long videos into premiere>From there I set my IN and OUT then drag onto the timeline.

Is there any way I could automatically save the shortened clips so I could delete the original longer videos they're trimmed from?

When I delete the original video now, my project now my shortened clips arent shown on the timeline.

[Ann Bens]

That is correct if original is deleted so is all trimmed clips on the timeline.

Trimmed clips on the timeline are not real clips but references to the original clip.

If you want separate trimmed clips you need to export them as such.

[n_minoo]

How do I export the trimmed clips?

[rodneyb56060189]

I think maybe you want to save your stuff as SUBCLIPS and name them appropriately so that it's easy to navigate to the SUBCLIPS you created in your bins.

Basically, you put a long clip in your source monitor from your source panel … ( lets assume you timeline is now blank, no clips on it ).

you make in out points and drag that PORTION of your long clip into source panel as a subclip and give it a name. Move it to a bin you create if you want to further categorize the subclips ( like, 'interview', car interior, boat race, etc. )

You never put the whole long clip into the timeline, but it stays in your source panel ( it's been imported ). You create the subclips from that long thing in source monitor ( with in out marks) and drag down into source monitor and name the subclips.

You can ALSO, at the same time ( after naming your subclips ) drag them to your timeline... and begin building your edit timeline.

You just keep working through the long clip in source monitor ( creating new in out points along the way ) to create MORE subclips, and save them and move them to timeline as you go along.

????

I think that's what you want ???

just google adobe premiere pro subclips and you'll get a gazillion idiots describing how it's done.

[rodneyb56060189]

P.S.

you never put the long clip in timeline to begin with ( only the subclips ) and you NEVER delete from source material ( panel) the long clip. It's just there, imported and happy.

And you don't EXPORT nothin to do this.. you are just using multiple PORTIONS of the long clip to create the subclips and dragging those subclips to the timeline...

hope this makes sense...

creating the subclips does NOT add any BYTES to your storage drives, etc... it's just using what you got already.

I'm an idiot and find it hard to explain stuff.

[rodneyb56060189]

I've been thinking about it, and I guess this is the type of logic that the creators of the atomic bomb have. You can have a planet where all life is dependent on the planet to live, but you can make a bomb ( many of them) that can destroy the earth, yet still think someone will WIN ( live). An exercise of DEPENDANCY and fantastic imagination.

The earth is the long clip. The life is the trimmed clips.

Luckily, however, in Resolve at least ( I have the old version CS6), you can export a timeline as individual clips, rather than one file.

The transitions and effects and so on will probably be all screwed up if you do that ( I haven't bothered yet cause I haven't had the need ).

You would have to export some lossless codec in order to re-import to NLE and have happy source material for edit purposes.