Batch modifying clip properties

[Darren Laberee]

In the Browser Select the first entry, shift-select the last one, CNTL-click any entry and select from the list. If the tape number is not in the list, change one entry first, then all.
This works with most things in the browser windows (many personal typos)

[John Steventon]

Hi there,

Firstly, thanks for the quick reply, but I must be missing something, as this is just the same as what’s currenrtly happening – I select all the clips I want to change, right click (or CTRL click) on one of the clips, change the tape name there – but only that clip changes the tape name – all the others I still have to do the same – or just change them one by one in the browser.

Am I missing something in your instruction maybe?

Sorry to be a bit vacant here – I just can’t work out what I need to do.

John

Success is merely a failiure to imagine more…

[Debe]

I think, unfortunately, it’s a one-at-a-time proposition. Still, right-click and pick from a list is a lot easier than retyping each one.

Is that assistant still hanging around? This’ll be something he/she’ll never forget, and I bet if you use this a teaching tool, you’ll improve the relationship with the assistant (not that I’m assuming it’s bad to begin with…even a good relationship can be improved upon!)

If at all possible, have the assistant fix their mistake. It’s an easy one to forget when you’re starting out! (Even though FCP makes sure you know there’s a new tape…not like the old days of Avid when it didn’t remind you!!)

debe

[Deditster]

It does work. Change one of the clip reel #’s to the proper name or #. then select all the corrosponding clips that have the wrong reel # and right click in the reel colum, then select the number from that. They should all change. worked for me the other day.

d.

[Debe]

I thought you could batch change things like that before capture, but after capture, you have to do it one at a time.

Better still if I’m wrong!!

debe

[John Steventon]

Ah, my bad.

I don’t know if I read your instructions wrong, or if there was just room for interpretation – but I didn’t do what you said. When it got to the “Ctrl Click” part – I was still right clicking on the clip name, and going into the format properties window thing – rather than right clicking on the reel name column, bringing up the list of tapes you mentioned – and then being able to change them all at once in there.

So, sorry for the mis-reading, and thanks very much for indeed giving me the correct answer.

John

Success is merely a failiure to imagine more…