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Tracking clip usage in bins
I posted this question in the ‘basic’ forum and got no responses so I thought I would try here…In Premiere Pro one of the collumns you can display in a bin is video/audio usage. It shows the number of times a clips video and/or audio is used in any sequence in the project. I can’t seem to find a similar feature on FCP. Does something like this exist? It makes it very easy to tell what clips I’ve already used and I’ve gotten used to having this feature on Adobe. Any suggestions for FCP?
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I believe the only way to track usage is in the Timeline where you select Show Duplicate Frames in the Timeline Layout Popup located in the bottom left of the Timeline window.
Lee Berger
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Funny, I remember that feature in Premiere 5.1! I missed it when I switched to FCP. But I think the media manager can show this, although I’ve never done it.
Have a wonderful day.
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I came to depend on a similar feature in Vegas – One column in the browser shows how many times a clip is in use – sure do miss it in FCP. It’s very convenient when you have many shots that all have to get into a video, but the order and location in the timeline isn’t especially critical.
Lately I’ve changed my workflow where I don’t set in/out points until a clip is used – that way I at least have an indicator in the browser that I’ve used a clip.
-d
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I found a little work around as this was driving me nuts the other day – I go to the timeline and ‘select all’ (cmd-a) then choose Modify/label/ and choose a color (optn-cmd-2, 3, 4, etc).
This grabs all the clips in the timeline and changes their label color to your choosing, and it also changes the clip name color in the browser. Now I scan the browser and quickly see any clips that haven’t changed color and I know which clips are in use in my project and which aren’t.
Not as elegant as a media usage counter, but better than writing it all down on paper.
-dave
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This is the best solution I’ve heard so far. Good idea!
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