Thanks for the responses. I need to work in the Source Panel, since that is the only place you can make subclips, I believe.
I think I need to make subclips. But I'm new at this, so I'll just explain what I'm doing and you might know a better way...
I'm shooting high school basketball games. I have two products: a "de-gapped" full game for the coach to review and then various types of highlight reels, mostly for parents and players.
Full game. To save time creating the full game, I press record on/off with every referee whistle. I end up with about 80 clips per game. I don't have to do any editing. I drag all the clips to the timeline, render, export, and upload. The coach can rewatch the game immediately, and he appreciates that it is already "de-gapped." It doesn't have to look pretty.
Highlight Reels. Second, I rewatch each of the 90 clips one at a time in the Source panel and pull out highlights as subclips (i/o, CTRL-U). (This is where I'm running into the problem of the "next clip" not starting at its beginning, but rather at some random point in the clip.) SHIFT-2 is the default "source panel next clip" shortcut, but I created CTRL-L as well since my right hand is already living on the JKL keys. It's not a huge deal since I can simply press HOME then SPACEBAR to start the clip from the beginning, but it's a slight annoyance, particularly since it was working as desired for the first 30 games I did!
Subclips. Anyway, this is why I create subclips (which I believe you can only do in the Source panel)... I pull out the highlights (made shots, good passes, etc.) from each of the 90 clips and save them as subclips. My naming convention allows me to put together various highlight reels almost instantaneously because all the subclipping work is front-loaded. One subclip might end up in 5 highlight reels and that's why I want to save subclips, for re-use. I can do highlight reels by-game for all players, by-player across many games, or by-type of highlight (shots, passes, defense, etc.), for instance.
One clip. Alternatively, I tried to reimport the full-game and play it in the source panel and then pull out highlight subclips - i.e. work with one clip instead of 90 clips. It looked like the quality was degraded, probably because it went through that extra rendering step, but any advice on improving that process would make the whole process easier. Is there a way to combine 90 clips into one clip without any quality loss? The specs on every clip are identical (eg frame rate, resolution, etc.), but even so, my understanding is that you need to render before combining them(???). I wouldn't have to "next clip" at all then.
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