While we were recording a session, we got carried away and inadvertently 3-4 songs were recorded onto the same clips (3 separate cameras producing 3 separate .MTS files). I'm producing the videos a song at a time, and would like to just deal with the specific song clips in each project, rather than have these ginormous clips in all the projects.

It occurred to me to take each multi-song clip, and create a project per song for each clip, trim everything down to just the one song, then write that out, as, say MPG4. Then gather the 3 (now truncated) MPG4s and use them in turn as the source clips in a new project. To recap (for example):

MTS #1 (Song1,+S2+S3) --> Song1Trim1 project --> Song1Trim1.MPG4
MTS #2 (Song1,+S2+S3) --> Song1Trim2 project --> Song1Trim2.MPG4
MTS #3 (Song1,+S2+S3) --> Song1Trim3 project --> Song1Trim3.MPG4

Song1Trim1.MPG4, Song1Trim2.MPG4, Song1Trim3.MPG4 --> Song1 Project --> Final result/Youtube

Does this make sense?
Other ways to accomplish the same kind of "chopping" up of a single input file?
If this is reasonable methodology, MPG4 the best format to use?


Chuck Puckett
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