Watching a jillion clips straight through

[rmorgan]

I’m taking a stab at video with an Ace Pro. I was quickly reminded of one of my major frustrations when I tried GoPros years ago—the huge volume of files. I hope y’all can point me toward an app (IOS), program (Windows PCs), or strategy to click on the first mp4 in a folder and have playback move to the next file after playing the first, until the last file in the directory is played—basically, a “slideshow” of video. It’s frustrating to play one, go to the directory, find the next . . . Probably basic workflow, but I’ve not found it.

 

[Johnoly]

In windows, one of the default player programs is Media Player. After you open it by clicking on your video file,,,,go to the home screen by clicking on the little house icon in the upper left corner. Once on the home screen, a side bar will open on the left and one option will be "play que" . You can then a click on the plus button and add all the files in your directory. Can't help on Apple or android options.

 

[rmorgan]

Thank you

 

[Pearlman]

Pot player is my current favourite app for viewing videos. However considering the volume of clips to edit it is a sheer waste of time to view a 100 clips and then open a video editor to start viewing the clips again in order to cut and edit the wanted vs unwanted portions of the clips. You are better off viewing them in a video editor of your choice and doing the cuts at once.

 

[dflaher]

I’m taking a stab at video with an Ace Pro.

How do you like your Ace Pro? Thinking of getting one, but I'm sort of a noob in this space.

 

[TravisD]

Are you using a 'real' editing package currently? If not, you might want to head that direction. My workflow is based around Final Cut Pro (MacOS) but I believe others should be similar.

Basically, I pull all of my footage into FCP - optionally tagging it based on site/day/etc. Then I can quickly skim/scrub thru each clip, marking an "in" and "out" point and making it as a favorite. Depending on what my goals are (and how much material I"m working with) I make pretty quick decisions - is composition "OK", not too much shake, content might be interesting....

Once I've made the first pass, I can hide all of the non-Favorite clips, and usually just add them all to a new timeline, in whatever order they show up in (usually chronological assuming I have time set correctly)

Then I can actually watch the favorited clips in real-time, and start thinking about what works and what doesn't - things that I just don't like get kicked out of the timeline. For much of the material, this is the first time I've watch it closely, in real-time, which to me saves a lot of the headache of dealing with all of the footage that's now way to easy to accumulate.