I've got a short film with 5 hours of footage, which in the end will be about 20 minutes. For each scene, I have medium and close-up shots for each of the two actors - and a long shot including both actors.
I'm struggling to identify what is what on the timeline when I add, for example, 5 tracks:
I spent a lot of time logging the footage with markers in Adobe Prelude, e.g. tagging each shot as long, medium, close, the last takes for each scene, bad takes, etc. - but none of this shows up in the timeline - only the clip name, which in my case is simply the scene and take number. I find myself just staring at these not so helpful clip names and scratching my head. Is it as simple as renaming the clips? I feel like I wasted a lot of time in Prelude, and came to the conclusion I must be going at it the wrong way. I can see all of the markers I had made in Prelude - but only in the markers panel in Premiere - not on the tracks on the timeline.
I imagine there is a tried and true way to organize tracks in an NLE for traditional feature/short films with long/med/short shots? Any advice would be much appreciated!
I'm struggling to identify what is what on the timeline when I add, for example, 5 tracks:
- Long shot (both actors)
- Medium shot - Actor 1
- Medium shot - Actor 2
- Close-up shot - Actor 1
- Close-up shot - Actor 2
I spent a lot of time logging the footage with markers in Adobe Prelude, e.g. tagging each shot as long, medium, close, the last takes for each scene, bad takes, etc. - but none of this shows up in the timeline - only the clip name, which in my case is simply the scene and take number. I find myself just staring at these not so helpful clip names and scratching my head. Is it as simple as renaming the clips? I feel like I wasted a lot of time in Prelude, and came to the conclusion I must be going at it the wrong way. I can see all of the markers I had made in Prelude - but only in the markers panel in Premiere - not on the tracks on the timeline.
I imagine there is a tried and true way to organize tracks in an NLE for traditional feature/short films with long/med/short shots? Any advice would be much appreciated!