Re: Bin vs. Timeline Preference

Because I'm a child of the sixties I'll answer "Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks." I don't think there's a right or wrong, just what works best and is fastest for you. That said, here's what I do:

1) Set fairly casual ins and outs on digitizing. Not always able to do this on the fly with tape rolling, but try to anyway.

2) After digitizing review redundant takes and if there's no possibility of needing something from it, delete the redundants. This might also be a place for creating additional category bins as a means of keeping organized.

3) Go through the clips setting precise ins and outs. At this stage the edit has more than begun in my head and I may add notes to clips to help later.

4) On a "workspace" timeline start playing with the more interesting and/or challenging scenes. If they work they can later be copied over as whole scenes to the real program timeline.

5) Create the program timeline, first inserting bars, tones and (if needed) space for a slate.

6) Lay in working music. If narration runs the full length and/or sets the pace of the show I'll put it in here, at the start. Music does not have to be right at this stage as there's almost always a need to edit to length anyway.

7) Start building on the programs timeline from the beginning, brining over complete scenes from the workspace as needed.

8) Slip, slide, re-trim as needed.

Hope this, one man's process, helps with your thinking. And congratulations on using the changeover to re-think your process. Smart thinking on your part.