Organizing Your Footage

Why is organizing your footage so important to editing? What are two things you found really helpful that you learned in this video?

    Organizing your footage is so important to editing because doing so makes the process easier and faster, making large amounts of shots much more manageable and more convenient to track. Two things that I found really helpful in the video was to use "bins" or rather folders within the project files to sort shots by audio, location, person interviewed, or scene. This is a quick way to sort clips but also makes finding specific ones much easier than it would be without it. Another thing that I learned from the video is to use labels and things like comments to tell additional information without watching the clip. This means, during the organizing process, while watching the clips you pick up information about it and put key things into a comment column on the file. You can also color code with labels to signify specific types of shots, like b-roll, audio, cut-aways, etc. These all are big time savers during the editing process as different clips and information about them can be found easily without having to watch and rewatch them constantly.