ghost355 wrote:I work with several shows, making on-air promo videos. I create a new project for each new task. So I can edit some videos for one show, or I make a video for several different shows to show them all together. I see each show’s episode and make selections the best of moments from them. I like to create subclips without extends, and use it for my video. If I need extra video behind my subclip I use Match Frame to Source function.
There's no crime in using Dynamic Project Switching and just have both projects up at the same time, then cut and paste between them. As long as all the source files are available, this is perfectly fine. But if you need to disconnect the drive or use a different server or something, then it can get very sloppy.
Maybe a good method would be:
• create a new timeline in the old project and call it SELECTS.
• drop in just the moments from the previous show that will go into the promo.
• now, Media Manage *just this timeline* to your new source drive.
• arrange those clips in the correct folder and bin for the new project.
• now cut the promo at the head of the show, and you're ready to go.
In the days when I was working on network shows (many of them), they would usually just edit the promo separately and that would come in as a flattened file, created from the actual color-corrected episode. Sometimes, I still tweaked the promo a little bit because there were new shots juxtaposed that had never been cut that way before, but in general, everything stayed the same.
It's a question of what works best for you. I'm not an editor, and promo editing is kind of its own "secret society" of complex workflows and methods.