Starting Editing and Problems

We have now started to edit out media, we had a problem with the first edit, as we lost some footage and the software did not store it properly. however, we did manage to get the clips back and have editing about the first 30 seconds for out 2 minute opening. We also had alot of outtakes, so we had to take quite alot of time, just going threw with clips we are going to use and which are main important clips.