[Jake177]

Originally Posted by KelliV

My advice for shooting, create a sheet of paper with boxes on it, approx 4 boxes across and 6 down. Then as you tape each time you start a new clip sketch a small picture of what you see in the box and write down the time of the tape it started. It makes it so much easier when you go back to edit, becuase as much as you tell yourself "oh it's labeled Atlanta 2006 on the I will know where the clip is" you won't know four years down the line when you are looking through the footage, trust me.

You definitely want to index your raw tape. When I was in high school I did video for my team, and I can't tell you how much having all my raw footage indexed helped me. It was so nice to have a list that I could go to and see what I had to work with when making a video. It also came in handy during my senior year, when our advisor asked me to make a retrospective video for the team's tenth anniversary. The four years that I had been on the team were a piece of cake because I could just go to the video logs I had made to find clips, instead of watching hours of raw video looking for them.