editor

For the past few years, my workflow for editing videos for my YouTube channel was the following:

1. Write and record narration / 'A-roll' using a teleprompter
2. Import recording into timeline, and chop out silent portions manually using the blade and/or range tools
3. Work on the rest of the edit (adding 'B-roll' and inserts).

Step 3 is where the vast majority of editing time is spent, especially when I need to add in charts, motion graphics, etc.

For most log and text files, simply opening them up in $editor_of_your_choice works fine. If the file is less than a few hundred megabytes, most modern editors (and even some IDEs) shouldn't choke on them too badly.

But what if you have a 1, 2, or 10 GB logfile or giant text file you need to search through? Finding a line with a bit of text is simple enough (and not too slow) if you're using grep. But if you want to grab a chunk of the file and edit that chunk, or split the file into smaller files, there's a simple process that I use, based on this Stack Overflow answer:

Details (which won't load right now—since it's been half a decade since 1.0, people are overloading the server) are here:

TextMate 2.0 Alpha [Macromates blog].