From the project created yesterday I imported batches of the captured clips into a timeline and started watching the clips chronologically. Every 5 / 10 clips or sequence of events, I deleted the completely unusable clips from the timeline and renamed each valid clip. The discarded clips were absolute disaster clips or backup replicas that could be deleted.

The naming convention used for the retained clips was Location/Time Sequential Order - Description.avi e.g. "Pre 01 - Airport queue out pan.avi", or "Banos 05 - Waterfall water closeup.avi", or "Banos 05 - Duck sound effect.avi". This naming convention retains the chronological sequence of events for each particular place using the reference number after the location and describes the scene. A proper description of the contents of the scene will help determine why the scene was taken and retained, a sort of self documenting procedure especially useful for scenes with the same content. In the Tanzania video I had scenes named zebra 01, zebra 02, etc. but this wasn't very helpful when trying to locate specific scenes during the later editing stages.

I timed myself during each 30 minutes of the tape. The total time taken to edit the first 30 minutes that I had previously watched the previous day was approx 2hr (excluding yesterday's 45 minutes). The second 30 minutes that I only watched once during this phase took only 1hr 20mins. I arrived at the conclusion that I can safely proceed without watching the video capture stage thus saving about 1hr for each tape. There was no additional benefit in either time or ease/quality of clips selection to warrant the need of watching the capture stage.