Pr2019: How to "actually" split clips

Question

As part of learning by doing, I'm building a fan-music-video to get my chops back, after not touching Pr since Pro2.

As you might imagine, this entails cutting lots of little clips out of long source footage.

What I *expect* to be able to do is mark clips somehow in the long source clip, and then cut them out, *into separate clips in the bin, named, and not interacting with one another*. The Metalogging workspace, which I understand to be intended for initial footage logging and handling, has no timeline, and it appears that "put the clip on a timeline", is the only way to do this sort of splitting.

But I forsee two problems, and I'm not sure what to do about either of them:

1) What timeline/sequence should I use for doing this splitting, and if the source footage is of a different standard than the project/final program, how will those two interact -- I'd prefer not to have to render that early... and also where do I *get* that timeline? Do I clutter up the Program timeline, and then clean it up after? Or create a new sequence and then discard it (a Timeline is the viewfor the model that is a Sequence, right?)

2) It appears to me, so far, to be the case that {WARNING: theoretical example ahead} if I import a single 10 minute clip into a program and bin, called SAMPLE.MPG, and put it on a timeline and razor it into 3 3.3 minute clips, all three will still be called SAMPLE.MPG, and there will still only be one clip in the bin. If that's true -- and especially if I can't rename the three clips independently -- that's going to drive me up a wall. Is that in fact the case, and if so, how does one get from where that leaves me to where I want to be?

Do I really have to do that, and then manually export each clip and pull it back into the bin?

Or is there magic I'm simply not seeing for this circumstance, which really can't be *that* uncommon, 3 decades into nonlinear editing... 🙂

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R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

You lost me at "subclip". To me, logically, the results of my clipping *are all first class clips*; that's how I want them to behave. I do not want them to interact at all; I want them to live in the bin as unique objects, not tied to anything else.

You are saying that they'll still be related somehow, right? Or have I misunderstood you? :-)

They function as independent clips UNLESS you use the Master Clip function.

And only those things you do with Master Clip will occur across other uses.

It will do exactly as you wish. And also means if you color correct one part of a clip, and it would work for the others, that you CAN easily and quickly apply that to all.

And of course any color or other changes you apply directly to a subclip clip in a sequence will only apply to that subclip. In that sequence.

As with Premiere, your changes ONLY apply to a clip within a sequence, and 'normal' changes or effects are never added to the clip in a bin. EXCEPT for Master Clip changes.

This does not give you separate clips on disc, of course ... only within that project. If you do want separate clips, you would need to export them as such.

Neil

code001_it · Answer

If I have not misunderstood your needs, I maybe found a turn around fast enough that is not so complicated, mostly because you can concentrate on the choices then you can split them in subclips.

You create Chapters on the Clip you want to extract subclips, wherever you want to have splitting points.
You Right click it + "Duplicate" then rename it.
You double click on whichever Chapter Marker you need then click on "Playhead position" and copy its time.

Right click + "Edit subclip" and paste above Playhead position in Start and repeat the process for End.

Right Click + "New Sequence from clip" and that's all!

Hope it helps!

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