can you mark used footage as ‘used’?

[Michael Gissing]

One way is to make an EDL and see if it generates a B roll. That will tell you what and where has been duplicated.

[Michael Gissing]

The other way is to search the manual where I just discovered FCP has a duplicate frame display. I will let the manual explain it to you. Just search for duplicate frames

[Scott Sheriff]

Make a bin called ‘used’, as a sub-bin in your footage bin. When you use a clip in your timeline, move it to the used bin.

Scott Sheriff
Director
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I have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…

[Jason Brown]

I use an app called “is clip used” Phillip Hodgetts makes it and its very helpful identifying clips that have been used.

Link:

https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/11/is-clip-used-in-fcp-sequence/

[Richard Krall]

Thanks Michael for the tip on duplicate frames. I did it and even though it’s still kind of confusing, this could be helpful.
Scott, that makes sense, too but, I’d have to break all my clips into sub clips to do this.
Jason, that’s a cool applet, that could be helpful, also.
Thank you all.

Don’t mean to harp or complain unnecessarily (I don’t expect FCP to do my laundry) but, would a color indicator bar or color overlay in the timeline of the clip viewer for used footage be too much to ask?
I think I’m going to, as a stop-gap, use different colored markers on the clip viewer timeline to indicate used footage. Time consuming but, effective.

[Shane Ross]

[Richard Krall] “Don’t mean to harp or complain unnecessarily (I don’t expect FCP to do my laundry) but, would a color indicator bar or color overlay in the timeline of the clip viewer for used footage be too much to ask? “

Uhhh…no. And that does indeed already exist. It is called, as someone mentioned, SHOW DUPLICATE FRAMES. It’s there…already. Been there for ages.

Shane

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[Richard Krall]

Thanks Shane but, unless I’m missing something here, the Duplicate Frames feature, when I do it, only shows up on the main timeline, not in the Clip Viewer (should I refer to this as the ‘Clip Preview Window’?). If it can show color bars or some type of indicator in the Clip Viewer, please let me know how to do it.

[Shane Ross]

There is no way to see what footage was used by loading the clip into the VIEWER…the PREVIEW monitor. Only after you drop it into the sequence. But that’s quick. Drop it in…oop, that was used. Undo…try somewhere else. A tad time consuming? yes, but that’s editing. And if you get to know all your footage like good editors do (a skill you develop over time), you might already recognize that “hey, I used that shot already.” There are times when even GREAT editors don’t remember they did that…thus the DUPLICATE FRAMES option in most pro NLEs.

Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Shane Ross] ” A tad time consuming? yes, but that’s editing.”

I love how many threads over the years we have had to put in something like that line.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Shane Ross]

Most people new to editing and production don’t realize this. Editing isn’t an instant art, like music, or cooking. It takes a lot of time, and we change things a lot. Feature films can take between 4 months to a YEAR (well, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE took 3 years) to edit. There are some things that are instant, like news editing.

But even :30 commercials take a day or two…sometimes three. For 30 seconds. I guess that can be boggling for some people.

Shane

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