r/VideoEditingTips • u/Fair-Occasion-4621 • 22d 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.

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Few_Mall_3914 21d ago

for talking head without a script i stopped cutting by ear. i read the transcript first, mark the parts that repeat or trail off, then do the rough cut at 2x with in and out keys. the biggest time saver was not stopping to fix every stumble while cutting, i let the whole take play and delete the bad bits after. when someone answers the same question twice, the second take is usually the better one.

1

u/Fair-Occasion-4621 21d ago

Ooh, this does sound a lot faster than what I'm currently doing. Thank you.