Media import workflow for amateur travel content?
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:25 pmHi,
I am new to DaVinci Resolve and video postproduction in general. I did some tutorials, so I get the basics of timeline editing and color grading. However, I still haven't figured out the complete workflow for my use case and would appreciate suggestions on how to approach it.
My content is mostly drone/GoPro travel footage, usually taken spontaneously, with a goal to make a short video for personal use/social media. This seems to be much different than the tutorials I did, where clips were professionally recorded for scripted scenes - my clips are usually a few mins long and consist of a few 10-30s good bits between of unusable content (bad composition, jerky moves, too short sequences, unrecoverably bad exposure/noise).
I used to take only photos, where my workflow is as follows: I start by throwing away 90% of unusable pics first, then continue selection picking the best shot for a given scene, then finally color grade the rest in Lightroom. I was thinking about something like that with video - only instead of pics, extract usable bits to individual clips so later I can build a timeline with the most interesting ones.
I came up with the following approach, but maybe this can be done more effectively?
1. Start Project1
2. Import clips on the Media page
3. On the Cut/Edit page, for each good bit mark In/Out markers and add to the timeline (duplicating the clip if contains more than one good bit)
4. Export the timeline as individual clips in the original quality and codec
5. Start Project2, create the target video from exported clips
6. Cleanup: delete the original clips (not exports)
Or maybe there's a completely different better approach which I don't see due to my photography related habits?
I am new to DaVinci Resolve and video postproduction in general. I did some tutorials, so I get the basics of timeline editing and color grading. However, I still haven't figured out the complete workflow for my use case and would appreciate suggestions on how to approach it.
My content is mostly drone/GoPro travel footage, usually taken spontaneously, with a goal to make a short video for personal use/social media. This seems to be much different than the tutorials I did, where clips were professionally recorded for scripted scenes - my clips are usually a few mins long and consist of a few 10-30s good bits between of unusable content (bad composition, jerky moves, too short sequences, unrecoverably bad exposure/noise).
I used to take only photos, where my workflow is as follows: I start by throwing away 90% of unusable pics first, then continue selection picking the best shot for a given scene, then finally color grade the rest in Lightroom. I was thinking about something like that with video - only instead of pics, extract usable bits to individual clips so later I can build a timeline with the most interesting ones.
I came up with the following approach, but maybe this can be done more effectively?
1. Start Project1
2. Import clips on the Media page
3. On the Cut/Edit page, for each good bit mark In/Out markers and add to the timeline (duplicating the clip if contains more than one good bit)
4. Export the timeline as individual clips in the original quality and codec
5. Start Project2, create the target video from exported clips
6. Cleanup: delete the original clips (not exports)
Or maybe there's a completely different better approach which I don't see due to my photography related habits?