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neomarz1
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Question about editing a long film...

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I am trying to edit a long film. I'm using AVS video editor. The problem I'm having is that I plan on putting tons of scenes together. As my film quiry gets longer and longer, it becomes very hard to tell how well the edit is going, because the playback is no longer smooth. At this point its becoming guess work. Is there a way to edit a film together in sections... I dont want to degrade the quality. I have tried exporting scenes out in 3 minute segments, and bringing them back in, but of course rendering a film a second time seems to degrade the quality. Do I need a better video card? Is there a way to work with what I got? Is there a format that does not degrade much on a second render?(for both sound and video)
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Feature films usually are edited in multiple chunks of several minutes (up to ten). Depending on your software you could probably have several shorter compositions (which contain single shots) which all go into the master composition which is the whole film.

I do my short films in high definition and noticed how fast my drive was filling up: for a 5 min short I had more than 20 GB of files! The slow playback you experience may simply be a matter of a crammed disk. If possible, do the editing on a machine which doesn't do anything else as long as you edit the film.

You could render finished sequences in lower quality just for sake of editing, but keep the original files or a high quality render on a separate drive. This way you would deal with the preview files only during editing. Only in the last step you'd exchange all those temporary renders with the HD renders and do one final rendering pass.

I don't mention backups on multiple external drives because if you do such a big project you already thought of it ...
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