Random editing in Premiere CS5.5 ?

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a promotional teaser for the launch of a clothes brand.
I have footage taken from multiple cameras and in very different locations.
I'd like to try the process of random editing - partly inspired by John Cage's methods of writing music - after having sorted the rushes. I'd then take out whatever works and build on this base and around it (if it ever gives concluding outputs).

Do you have any idea how this could be achieved ?
I've been searching around the web and I didn't find anything.
I was thinking about scripting my way through it, but it seems even PP CS6 doesn't have that feature yet.
Or I could maybe use a plugin in AE (like Video Copilot's Twitch) to randomly show/hide the footage with masks, but that's not pretty at all.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Nicolas.

Just hover scrub and put random in/out points in the clips and automate it to the sequence.

I´m going to respond him if you allow me, Teros: automate to sequence is an option to place in the timeline several clips at a time. You can do it by clicking in the "Automate to sequence" button, the third from the lower left in the proyect pannel if i remember correctly. You can place the clips secuentially in the timeline by his order in the bin or by selection order, you can use preset transitions or not, and they can be placed in previous timeline markers as well, all at one time.
But as Teros said, you need to mark in and outs previuously in all the clips, and you have to choose an order to place them, so perhaps it´s more time consuming and not so ramdomly as you wanted. The multicamera option needs more hardware performance as it uses 4 video tracks at a time, and if your footage is AVCHD it could be jerky, but with a good machine it will be easy and very quick.

Regards

I forgot you don't have the hover scrub feature in CS 5.5... But yes you can automate clips from the project bin like Gabriel said before.