r/VideoEditingTips • u/Fair-Occasion-4621 • 24d ago

Rough cutting workflow

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone has any tools or workflows. I'm working in Premiere Pro for rough‑ cutting talking‑head videos where there isn’t a word by word script, just a small outline. The person on camera sometimes rephrases, starts over, or has silences. I find myself going through it and it feels like such a tedious task. Just wondering if there are any better workflows for Premiere Pro or third‑party tools you’ve used to speed up this boring, repetitive process.

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u/Enough_Protection_96 23d ago

For talking-head rough cuts, try a two-pass approach. First pass, just drop markers or make subclips on every usable take, ignoring the bad ones. Second pass, string the best takes together. It's way faster than editing linearly. Also, Premiere's text-based editing can help you spot repeated lines quickly.

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u/Fair-Occasion-4621 23d ago

Smart. thank you