Editing Film with Adobe Premier Pro 7 - Source Files??

Question

I have 50 hours of video footage to capture and then edit into a 1 1/2 hour film. My hard drive will not hold 50 hours of footage. How can I delete the excess (not needed) footage from a clip so that I can preserve the storage space on my hard drive?

For example: After capturing the footage from a 1 hour tape, I may only need 10 minutes of actual footage from that tape. How do I get rid of the excess footage so that it is not using up valuable storage space on my hard drive?

Adobe Pro seems to indicate that if I delete the source file, I will also lose the good footage I want to keep. Is this true? If so, that doesn't make much sense. I would think that once my chosen clips are in the timeline I should be able to delete the excess footage taking up hard drive space and still preserve the timeline footage.

Answer 1

It depends on your camera. I have a Hard Disk Camcorder so each time I press pause it ends that clip. So I may windup with 60 clips for one hour.

If you are using DV tape at some point you're gonna have to store the data on an external hard disk or burn it to a DVD.

The are cheaper programs to edit the footage such as Cyberlink Power Director. You can create Mpeg2/4 or WMV.

I burn my source files to DVD so if I ever need them I have them.