Advanced Video Editing Tips - Stringout, Selects & Pancake Editing
Here's a workflow tip to help you edit faster.
Note: I use Adobe Premiere, but most editing software has similar features. Davinci Resolve and the video editor in Blender are excellent free alternatives to Premiere.
You can have more than one sequence in an Adobe Premiere project. Use Stringout and Selects sequences to help you edit faster.
Setup
Create a new Premiere Pro project.
Click the paper icon at the bottom right of the Bin window to create a new sequence and choose your video settings.
Make 3 sequences named 00 STRINGOUT, 01 SELECTS and 02 MAIN
How it Works
Drag all the footage in your project into the Stringout sequence. You use stringout sequences to scrub (scroll) through everything you have and to make rough cuts with Q, W, E Editing without cluttering your main sequence.
Put cuts you want to use in your main sequence into the Selects sequence. A selects sequence is like a favourites folder where you can collect and scrub through footage you plan to use.
The Main comp where you edit your final video.
Pancake Editing
You can have more than one sequence open at the same time.
Click and drag one sequence above or below another to open two timelines (one on top of the other, a pancake). Now you can easily copy and paste between timelines.
