Preparing longer clips (interview) for a better overview? – Markers? Subclips? Etc.?

Hello! I am new to PP!
I am working with longer clips of interviews (10-20 min) and I would like to prepare them so I get an overview about the passages of each clip that I might use for a sequence later on. - In FCP I could not only set markers in the source! window but also edit/name/colorize them. So I would name many markers after text passages in a clip in the source window.
In PP this seems to be only possible in the sequence window which is too late for an overview.
Any suggestions? Subclips?
Thank you very much for your help! - Michael

You can subclip for this, but I'm personally not a huge fan of subclips in Premiere, so I usually don't use them. They just act... weird. I guess they are functional, but I usually find that when I attempt to use them, I'm limited and end up having to find work arounds. It's hard to be more specific than that; I was accustomed to subclipping in Avid which works much better.
Despite that glowing review, if you want to subclip, probably the easiest way to do it is to load your source clip into the Source Monitor, mark in and out points, and then hold down Ctrl/Cmd and drag from the Source Monitor back to a bin. This will pop up a dialog letting you name the subclip, and then drop the subclip into the bin. You can continue this way until you've created all your subclips.
As far as markers go, I think you're correct: I don't believe there is a way to add named markers to a clip in the Source Monitor. I'm not positive about this, as I've never tried to do that. As far as I'm aware, the only markers that can be named are sequence markers. You might want to make a feature request here: Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
My usual method of dealing with long interviews is sort of a hybrid subclipping approach. Basically, I create a sequence for each interview subject, and then either drop the full-length interview clips into that sequence and chunk it up, renaming the segments as I go, or I load into the Source Monitor and do the in-out routine and drop those into the sequence. Maybe it's lazy, but I find myself doing the former more than the latter; it's easy to see where an interview response begins and ends (usually) by looking at the waveform peaks in the audio clip. After I chunk out all the pieces, I just listen to the bite and name the clip instance in a manner that lets me figure out what the content of the bite is quickly. I then have a workspace set up with two Timeline panels, where I can drag a bite I want to use into my working edit. I adopted this approach after I more-or-less got skunked by subclipping, and it's worked well for me. There are obviously a number of ways you can go about this, so just experiment until you find the one that works for you.

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(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trumpet'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trumpet from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trombone'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombone from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trombone Bass'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombonebass from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Euphonium'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombonebass from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Tuba'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Tuba from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Percussion'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Percussion from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Piano'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Piano from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Violin'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Violin from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Viola'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Viola from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Cello'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Cello from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Bass'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Cello from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR'
SQL for band 'B'
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, instrument, total, RANK() OVER
( ORDER BY instrument,total ASC NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = '2014'
ORDER BY instrument, total ASC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank < (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
where year = :P6_YEAR)
SQL for band 'C'
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.student_id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
minus
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, instrument, total, RANK() OVER
( ORDER BY instrument,total DESC NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.student_id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY instrument, total DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank < (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
SQL

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Welcome to the forum: please read the FAQ and forum sticky threads (if you haven't done so already).
When you have a problem you'll get a faster, more effective response by including as much relevant information as possible upfront. This should include:
<li>Full APEX version
<li>Full DB/version/edition/host OS
<li>Web server architecture (EPG, OHS or APEX listener/host OS)
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<li>Theme
<li>Template(s)
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With APEX we're also fortunate to have a great resource in apex.oracle.com where we can reproduce and share problems. Reproducing things there is the best way to troubleshoot most issues, especially those relating to layout and visual formatting. If you expect a detailed answer then it's appropriate for you to take on a significant part of the effort by getting as far as possible with an example of the problem on apex.oracle.com before asking for assistance with specific issues, which we can then see at first hand.
You should also always post code wrapped in <tt>\...\</tt> tags.
I am trying to create a reportWhen asking a question about "reports" it's firstly essential to differentiate between standard and interactive reports. Which is it?
but get a ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column error.Where and when do you get this error? When creating the report? Or running it?
There's also an obvious bug (repeated many times):
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = ':P6_YEAR')
...<tt>':P6_YEAR'</tt> is a literal string, not a bind variable reference. <tt>':P6_YEAR'</tt> seems an unlikely value for <tt>festival_year</tt> and <tt>year</tt> values. It should be:
and a.festival_year = :P6_YEAR
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = :P6_YEAR)
...or even better:
and a.festival_year = to_number(:P6_YEAR)
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = to_number(:P6_YEAR))
...if the <tt>festival_year</tt> and <tt>year</tt> columns are of type NUMBER. There's a possibility that this bug is in fact the source of your error...
Furthermore, this is a long piece of SQL. It may be that APEX can't cope with the length. However it's also very repetitive: we see the same SQL pattern repeated many times and UNIONed together. One way to reduce the length of the query would be to replace some (or all) of those repeating patterns. This will not only make the query more APEX-friendly, but it will probably be more efficient and easier to maintain too.
I recommend that you Re: 2. How do I ask a question on the forums? that will enable others to have a go at this. Reproducing the app on apex.oracle.com and posting guest developer credentials would also be helpful.

I am using final cut express. It seems that any clip over a certain length, say 5 min, does not fully transfer! All shorter clips are perfectly fine. Is there some reason why longer clips are not fully transferred? (a half blue circle shows up on the tran

I am using final cut express 4. It seems that any clip over a certain length, say 5 min, does not fully transfer! All shorter clips are perfectly fine. Is there some reason why longer clips are not fully transferred? (a half blue circle shows up on the transfer list, indicating that the clip was not fully transferred. When I check in the capture scratch folder, sure enough the whole clip is not there!
Is there some glitch in final cut express that only allows short clips to be transferred in full?

Thanks for the reply. I'll try to answer all the questions (I am a relative novice). Your help is appreciated.
By the way, the other reply I received suggested the following:
In Final Cut Express>System Settings>Scratch Discs make sure the Limit Capture/Export File Segement Size To: is not checked.
I did this and it was already unchecked. So this is not the answer...
The strange thing is, I have been logging and transferring with FCE for 2 yrs without any problems at all with shorter clips, but have come up against the problem with long clips (over 5 or so min) the whole time. I got around it by simply making sure I stopped recording after less than 5 min while shooting footage. OR if I accidentally got a long clip, I import into imovie and then import into FCE. Not very streamline and I worry about compressions altering quality!
I am now trying to import a 20 min and a 17 min clip and it only transfers around 3 minutes of each, I have re-tried several times and it happens repeatedly. The blue circle in the transfer list shows up as a half blue circle instead of full. Clip cuts off after 3 or so minutes.
ANSWERS
how you are ingesting the files
From external flash drive connected directly to mac using FCE.
the format of the source footage
digital via ext flash memory. Frame size :1929X1080 / 25fps
what camera shot the footage
SONY HXR NX5
how you are connecting to the computer
from flash memory directly via usb
what version of FCE you are using
4
what OS your computer is running
10.6.8
what model Mac
macbook Pro intel Core i7
what drive you are using for Capture Scratch
3TB external drive (plenty of room left)

Media manager shifts timecode on long clip copies

We make sub clips from an hour long show daily, then consolidate these sub clips using media manager to be their own master clips. Then we(theoretically) delete the entire hour show and work only with the clips we want. This has been working great for small clips of a few seconds, but we are finding that longer clips (4-5 minutes) have timecode shifts creating nightmares for our finisher.... big shifts of 20 seconds and more.
Has anyone else had this issue?

You are taking a 720x486 clip, and blowing it up to 6 times the size, and trying to retain some semblance of quality...YES the MM will take 16 hours. It takes time to do this. Want to cut this time? Get an HD capture card and capture the footage via the card, upconverting it as you capture. Then the process is real time.
Top end machine or not, you are asking a lot, and it will take time. This isn't a 10 second or 2 minute clip...it is nearly an hour long.
Shane

Best practice when dealing with long clips

I have some long clips that I want to use more than once with different in and out points. I know this can't be done so is the best practice to make duplicates of the clips and set different edit points or somehow roughly split the large clip into smaller clips and name them accordingly.

Not certain what you think you can't do. Take a long clip and open it in the Viewer. Set In and Out points. Drop that into the Timeline. Now you can move along in the Viewer clip and set new Ins and Outs and drop that into the Timeline. Clips in the Timeline are created from the Ins and Outs you set in the Viewer.
Is that what you want to do? If it is, I don't where making copies of the clip would work for you
Later, if you want to match up a clip in the Timeline to that master clip, just use Match Clip (find) in the timeline to find where it correaltes to your main clip
You can have FCE automatically create subclips at camera cut points by using DV Stop/Start Detect if that is what you're looking for

Preparing longer clips (interview) for a better overview? – Markers? Subclips? Etc.?

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