• Avid Media Composer

  Master Clips into Sub Clips?

  Posted by Dustin Schmitt on September 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm

  Hi,

  Was wondering if there is a way to create sub-clips out of Master clips as a batch:

  IE: If I have a bin of Master Clips Can I select them all and create new sub-clips out of them all at once rather than doing it one by one?

  Thanks!

  Job Ter burg replied 14 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  Job Ter burg

  September 23, 2011 at 4:30 pm

  What type of subclips do you need? You can export an ALE from the bin, optionally modify the ALE (into V-only, for example), then import the ALE, and choose “merge with known sources and create subclips”.
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  Dustin Schmitt

  September 23, 2011 at 4:36 pm

  Not sure what you mean by “type”. Just a normal sub-clip from Master clip. As if I were to take the entire Master Clip and hit the “Create Sub Clip” Button.
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  Glenn Sakatch

  September 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm

  i think the question becomes, if you want the whole clip, as it is…why bother making a subclip, why not
  just use the clip?

  Glenn
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  Dustin Schmitt

  September 23, 2011 at 7:57 pm

  so I can re-name the clip
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  Glenn Sakatch

  September 23, 2011 at 8:05 pm

  call it anything you want.

  Quite often our EA’s will digitize first, label later.

  Glenn
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  Michael Hancock

  September 23, 2011 at 8:09 pm

  Rename the clip then. This isn’t FCP or Premiere – Avid uses a database to track the footage and it’s not connected to the name of the clip in your bin. It’s through some other metadata that you don’t see. Renaming a clip won’t send your footage offline.

  If you’re still not comfortable with it, go to your bin headings and show the Comments field or create a custom field and type your names in there. But really – you can just rename the clips.

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  Michael Hancock
  Editor
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  Andrew Mckee

  September 25, 2011 at 10:39 pm

  FCP and Premiere both allow you to name the clip in the bin without losing the link to or renaming the media file. To shed a little more light on the original question, you can duplicate a clip in one of two ways in Avid if you want it to be in two places at once. If you hold Alt and drag from one bin to another then you will create a clone which will change (name, in/out point) to always match the original clip. Alternatively, if you select any number of clips, it will and press command/control D it will create a duplicate that can be renamed something different to the original. I find both useful and as another poster said, no need to create subclips if its the entire clip you want.

  Andrew McKee
  Editor/Colourist
  Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
  Apple Certified Trainer – FCP7
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  Job Ter burg

  September 26, 2011 at 11:20 pm

  Then my ALE method makes sense.

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