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

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to try using AviSynth for awhile but I admit, it makes my brain want to explode. Do you know of any newbie guides that might make it click a little better?

[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

The two guides I linked are the best I've found. Unfortunately they're the type to make your head explode. The AviSynth subforum at Doom9 (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=33) might be helpful, but I didn't use it as a newbie so I don't know how accessible their guides are.

The best advice I can give is to start small. Try and see if you can get something to at least import into Premiere. Once you've got that down you can create more complex scripts as the need arises.

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!