Too much video

I've never gone through so much video as I did this week. For our bilingual education story, we collected close to four hours of video, between all our interviews. I guess the way to solve the too-much video problem would be to work on my interviewing technique. I need to be in control of the interview and not let sources ramble too much. It's just a fine line to walk-- you don't want to be logging hours of video, but you do want your sources to be comfortable with you so they'll give you what you want. I find that it's much easier to do a concise interview when you really have a clearly defined focus for your story. If you don't your questions stray broadly, and you're left with a lot of extra video that you'll never use. Anyway, lesson learned.