Newbie question: working with a lot of clips

[adhara.livejournal.com]

I've been browsing the community memories for a while now and haven't been able to find an answer to this. It seems to me (please, correct me if I'm wrong) that all the how-tos and "vidding for newbies" and the like just give for granted that I know if I'm going to work with several clips, and how to do it.

The problem is my Adobe Premiere works alright as long as I'm using just one source vid. So far I've only vidded movies, so I just needed the whole movie file and everything went smooth. Now I want to make vids for TV series but I've been running into this problem again and again: how do you do it, clip-wise? There's no way I can use 20 episodes at the same time in Premiere without my computer exploding. Do you join all the clips you want to use in the same file? I've tried that with Movie Maker but it didn't work very well. Or do you cut each clip with Virtual Dub and still work with 20 different clips on Premiere, only they're small ones?

I'm really lost with this, so any help with your personal preferences and tips would be great.

Comments

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I make a working folder called "clip library" for each vid. If I'm vidding a TV series, for example, I rip the episodes and then go through each one to clip out scenes that I think (or know, if I've storyboarded the vid beforehand) that I want to use for the vid. Then I store those individually prepared scenes in the library folder on my hard drive. I pull clips out of that folder and place them on the timeline in Premiere, and then start editing them - when each one is edited, it gets saved in the primary project folder in its edited form.

Storyboarding can be enormously helpful.

[adhara.livejournal.com]

yes, storyboarding is definitely a pending subject for me - i'll obviously have to start doing it if i want to vid series :) thanks a lot for your advice!