• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Add filename to TC burn in

  Posted by Gary Gowman on June 23, 2008 at 9:28 pm

  Is there any way, or plugin in, that will add the filename to a timecode window burn in FCP?

  Gary Gowman-Video Director
  Louisiana Media Services
  4K, 2K/DI, HDcamSR
  Assimilate Scratch and FCS2/Kona3 Suites
  Full Audio Production

  Gary Gowman replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  June 23, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  You can add a custom name to the “Label Field” of the TC Reader plug in that comes with FCP.

  Also, there’s TCR Plus

  https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/tcrPlus/index.html

  Jeremy
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  Gary Gowman

  June 23, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  Hi Jeremy,
  I saw TCR PLus, but could not see the filenames added? Maybe I need to dig in more on it? Label field is too much work for 100’s of clips in a full length movie. Even with segments as we work. Looking for an automatic load of source clip for conforming in Scratch. When a clip does not match, the ref movie can show me the clip I should find and it;s timecode without reading through the edl list.

  Someone mentioned to me an app by a company called Katy something? I can’t seem to find it now with a google search. It allows metadata burn ins, I think.

  Gary Gowman-Video Director
  Louisiana Media Services
  4K, 2K/DI, HDcamSR
  Assimilate Scratch and FCS2/Kona3 Suites
  Full Audio Production
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  Martin Jefferson

  June 23, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  Hi Gary – I have a workaround that may be useful – it’s a bit lame but there’s nothing else out there. Make a dupe of your final sequence – right-click the copy and select “Make Sequence Clips Independent” then “Make Offline”. Drop this sequence over top of your sequence, then use the motion tab to crop out the Media Offline slate except for the filename and move it where it’s out of the way. Like I said, not pretty, but it works and a lot less time-consuming than typing in every filename into the tcr.

  Cheers

  Martin
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  Jeremy Garchow

  June 24, 2008 at 1:26 am

  [Gary Gowman] “I saw TCR PLus, but could not see the filenames added?”

  If you read the page I linked to, it pretty much explains it.

  Jeremy
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  Gary Gowman

  June 24, 2008 at 1:05 pm

  I tried the demo before I posted here and it just said Clip: and never showed the name of the clip?? That is why I said I may need to dig in deeper. I expected it to automatically insert the name of the clip.

  Gary Gowman-Video Director
  Louisiana Media Services
  4K, 2K/DI, HDcamSR
  Assimilate Scratch and FCS2/Kona3 Suites
  Full Audio Production

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