Clip Management

It might be nice to have VIRB edit put the clips in per day folders rather than per month folders. But, even though I have 7 Tb of storage connected to or inside my Mac Pro, I'd rather not use it for storing VIRB videos. I'd like to see VIRB Edit be able to archive onto removable media and then use the files on that removable media when it's plugged in again, something like an amalgam of the stuff in ~/Movies/Garmin and ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/VIRB Edit. (I have the same problem with iMovie, where I try to get video off my drives as soon as I have the time to do it.)

I would like it to work more like other video editing programs (like Power Director Pro)do.
Import the clips you need by drag and drop, edit them and save them as a project.
When you start the program it's empty again but you could load your project.
Maybe this is against the policy of the "modern vision" of how things should be done.
MapSource worked that way but was not good enough, now we have BaseCamp that stores everything that you've ever done in it's own database as if anyone wants to manage a 10 year collection of hundreds of tracks and routes from within a program.

MARTINROBINSON243: The "last import" folder combined with the by-the-month folders were intended to keep the video count fairly manageable for the "import and create a new video" approach. How many videos are you guys capturing per month? Have we underestimated the size of the average import, or is this more of a problem with the month folders being too crowded when you look at your monthly archives?

SCHINDER: Providing a list of videos requires that we keep tabs on the clips that were used in them, so we'd prefer that they not get deleted out from under us if possible. We're working to improve the handling of that to indicate and handle when clips are "missing", though. We'll keep an eye out to see if there's continued demand for better handling of clip deletion after that change goes out. As far as supporting removable media goes, is editing Preferences > Clips Library Location not enough for your needs? You could conceivably put all of your videos on the same removable disk and manage it that way, so long as you plug that disk in before launching VIRB Edit.

No, Clips Library Location isn't what I had in mind. The only thing you keep there is the video itself. I'd like to see a self-contained directory full of everything (*.gpx, *.fit, whatever else, the stuff in ~/Library/Application Support/Garmin/VIRB Edit/Database) that VIRB Edit needs to work on a project. Import onto an SD card, thumb drive, or even an external spinning drive, remove it, and later on be able to plug it in and tell VIRB Edit where to look to start working on the project again. I'm not that fond of keeping videos around on my main drives, so I'd like to be able to get them quickly onto something else and then work on them at leisure. I know that the stuff in Database isn't that large, but it makes more sense to keep everything together in a package.

The trouble with having everything in a single clip library location ( folder ) is that as they are automatically named, it's impossible to keep a track on them all. Even being able to rename the clips on import would help this.
And being able to create a directory that contains everything for a specific video would be ideal ( as mentioned above ).

SCHINDER: We wouldn't default to putting all project data into standalone folders like that because it results in wasted space for clips that are used in multiple videos, and would get in the way of users reorganizing their movie libraries manually. We're not particularly good at handling the latter currently, but we don't want to design ourselves out of that possibility.

MARTINROBINSON243: It's not quite what you're requesting, but when you export in VIRB Edit it exports both the video and a GPX file of its track into a folder for you.

I'm not sure what's going on but the more clips I get in my library, the harder it is for me to even delete one, let alone many. I am using a Bluetooth keyboard, so not the corded Mac original, and normally I hit "CTRL" and click the mouse button to get the Delete option but it hardly ever works now. I use Loop mode often, so I end up with many short videos on import. As an example, yesterday I bought in 36 videos, and now I can't get rid of any of them in VE.

The CTRL button works in other applications like my web browser so I know it's not defective. It just no longer works in VE and I have no idea why.

+1 for SCHINDER, just put everything in a project file and don't bother to have a database.
Let the project file contain the clip-locations, and if they are not there search the directory the project file is in.
In this way you can have one folder with all the information of the video.
Also you don't need to delete a lot of clips over and over again and you don't have to scroll sideways to fine your video.

I like the iMovie/FCP way to have Projects and (optionally?) group the videos in the project by month or even days.
I've just been motorcycling for a few days last january and first of february, so the movies are separated now.

some more suggestions:
-make the date and time visible on the clips! I have multiple sd cards and as the Virb always begins the filename count from 0001 again, they are a lot of duplicate filenames, so a timestamp would help alot.
-make the Clip Library section resizable. there are only two rows of clibs visible. I need to scroll too much to find my clips. but I have a lot of free screen space (27" screen).
the opposite on my windows notebook: there I have a 12" screen and the clip section takes too much space. a resizable section would solve all screen size issues.
-multi-deletion of clips. after finishing I project I want to delete them all. single rightclick/delete every clip takes hours! and why is deleting a clip so slow? about 3-4sec to move it into the trash!

PAXTER1:
I don't think that I'm filming a lot but for January I have more than 100 clips.