File name display on video?

[Arnie Schlissel]

You can use a text generator to do this.

Arnie
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[Chris Tomkins]

Yes, I was hoping for something more automated than that. I have over 400 video files and I figured if Final Cut Pro knows the metadata of the name of the file, there might be a filter that would “burn” that information onto each clip, like with the timecode generator…

Chris

[Arnie Schlissel]

I’ve never tried it, but you could look into Traffic from xmEdit.

Arnie
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[Varun Saxena]

Hi,

U can do this just go to item properties of clip nd change the name of that
what u want to.

Regards
Varun

[Andreas Kiel]

Hi Chris,

You may try my free TCR Plus. It’s not an easy one step filter as there is no option within FCP to retrieve clip names or any other thing beside TC and Reel, but you can copy the clip name to the filter. There is an app which comes along with the filter which allows you to batch insert whatever you want from the basic comments, description etc. using XML, but that app is not free.

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

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
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[Eli Mavros]

I’m with you Chris, I’ve been wondering about such a plug-in as well. There have been many occasions when this would have been very useful. I hope someone knows of a plug-in.

Best,
Eli

Eli Mavros

[Daniel Frome]

Do this —

1) Make a duplicate of your sequence
2) right-click that new sequence “make sequence clips independent”
3) right-click sequence and “make offline”

The sequence now becomes a giant batch of “OFFLINE [filename]” visuals. Take this sequence, and drag it back over-top of the original sequence (which has the media still connected). Then crop off everything except the filename.

It’s going to take a while to render out the new sequence – but it works.

Apple should really just include a filter to do this… it’s really stupid.

[Vlad Akhtyrskiy]

Best solution!
Thank you Daniel.

[Deyson Ortiz]

Hello Daniel. You idea is ingenious. Now my problem is that when I make the copy offline the clips in the original sequence goes offline as well. I did do: 2) right-click that new sequence “make sequence clips independent”. Do you know what I may be doing wrong?

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[Daniel Frome]

Oh man, it’s been almost 2 years since I made that post. Brings back memories.

The “make clips independent” is the supposed to be the factor that turns this sequence offline, while keeping the other online. I am not sure why this isn’t working for you.

There is also another solution using a paid product, TitleExchangePro. I ended up switching to that soon after using this method. It’s a bit more of an elegant solution.

Lastly, I will admit that I switched to Avid a couple months after this I haven’t looked back. I mention this because this feature, if it’s important to you, is something that’s built directly into Avid’s timecode generator. You wouldn’t believe my relief when I found that out.