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FCP renaming duplicate projects
New to FCP and wonder if I can change the way FCP re names duplicates. Every morning when I start I copy my Project for safety. They have Content Created listed anyway, so I know which is which. But if I duplicate my project named CURRENT VERSION EPISODE 02, FCP waggishly decides to call the copy CURRENT VERSION EPISODE 3 -not great if you have 8 episodes, one of which IS EPISODE 3, but not the right one of course! And you really have to wrestle FCP to get rid of these damn numbers. Is there a way I can get it to do what Avid does and just copies the thing, with ‘copy’ added to to its name? Thanks Guy
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Look in to using snapshots instead of duplicates.
You can then setup a smart collection to keep the most current Project in there and have another smart collection that filters out the snapshots to keep things tidy. I have a smart collection called “Current Projects” and a smart collection called “zSnapshots”. There are differences in what happens when you snapshot a project vs duplicating it. Heres’s a video that goes over the differences:
https://www.bretfx.com/new-tutorial-snapshots-project-versioning-in-fcpx/
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Thanks for the advice Jeremy, looks good, Thanks again Guy
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