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renaming clips
I know that renaming clips in FCP is a complete disaster. Since Avid has such a superior media tracking ability; is it ok?
We have a bunch of material that was shot on XDCAM. Clips coming from the camera are labeled C0001, C0002, C0003 etc. We would like to change the clip name to the name of the person being interviewed. We have assigned a Tape ID to each clip to tell us what XDCAM disc it came from and the source file name tells us the original name.
Will this cause issues come online time?
So far we haven’t named anything.
Scott Davis
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3 Replies
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You can rename the clips in a Avid bin inside a Avid project without any negative effect.
Ricky
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Its fine to rename clips in avid however I would always keep the original name for the master clips and rename the subclips.
Gaz Evans
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I personally prefer to
• create a user column in text view which I call ORIGINAL NAME or something like that
– note caps to easily distinguish from AVID preset columns…
• then I click on ‘Name’ to activate all the clip names as imported in the case you describe
• and finally press ‘command D’ to duplicate the clips names into whichever column I whish
– in this case ‘ORIGINAL NAME’
Then you will be free to rename all the imported clips while keeping trace of its first name.I prefer this method to creating subclips as I use subclips for other purposes…
This very simple example demonstrates in my opinion the overwhelming superiority of MC over FCP regarding bin management…
I don’t say MC is perfect, far from that, but the ease with which one can create as many columns and
bin views one requires and the save them and switch in between them is not, alas, paralleled in FCP.
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