Basic Workflow Question: Batch Renaming Sequences to Match Clip Names

[Michael Gissing]

Have you seen Shane Ross’s tapeless workflow tutorial? Making new QT files after syncing, doubles your storage and breaks time code and the ability to recapture via Log & Transfer if you have a corrupted file or a hard drive tanks.

https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

Also search this forum as double system sycing and sub clipping have been discussed at length.

[Chris Frantz]

Thanks for the prompt response. Maybe I should have elaborated on the workflow a bit more. I’ll be importing the clips via ShotputPro, into “reels” such as A001 for the first dump off A camera, and so on. This will enable me to dump to two drives, and ensure proper media transfer because of the MD5 checksum verification that will be run on each copied clip, as well as a manual overview of the footage I plan to do. I will not be using Log & Transfer at all. With this method, corrupted footage will not be an issue unless the fault lies on the source media itself. Neither will a hard drive tanking, because I will have an exact duplicate already created at the time of the initial ingesting of media.

The new QT’s are necessary (delivery to the editor is ProRes422 with synced WAV audio), regardless of the hard drive requirements, which are really a non issue in this case. Because the footage is DSLR footage with no embedded timecode, and we will not be using a lockit box, timecode is also a non issue.

Thank you for the link, I have seen it before, but it is a good one to watch again. I have searched the forums, and this is also not my first time media managing a DSLR shoot, but it is my first time with this particular delivery within such a short period of time.

I hope that clears things up a bit, thanks again for the response.

[Jerry Hofmann]

If you merge the clips, then export the clips (instead of a sequence) it would maintain the name of the video file. Would that help the workflow?

Maybe not though… more steps possibly, but no way I know of to make a sequence automatically name itself the same name as a first clip added to it.

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[Chris Frantz]

Yes sir! I can’t believe that didn’t occur to me, some times the most obvious solutions are the easiest. I’ll have the original source video/audio in one bin, and drag the merged clips to a separate bin, then just batch export the bin once everything is synced. I just tried it on some old footage and it works great! If only I could automate the process a bit more, with a watch folder for import in fcp, automatically create new sequences, then refresh/run pluraleyes, create a merged clip, add to bin, then export bin to compressor for immediate rendering. Ah, wishful thinking.