File name display on video?

[Andreas Kiel]

Yes,

It’s fun to see some old posts pop up time by time.

Dayson,

What you can do is use an XML.
Export the sequence as XML.
Re-import the XML and leave the “Reconnect Media” unchecked.
Now all your clips in the new sequence are offline — without touching the original sequence.
Copy/Paste those clips to the original sequence on a new track.
Make this clips nested.
Apply a mask to cut out everything which is not the clip name.
Move the nested clip to a position where it should appear in the final video.
Render.

As said 2 years ago you also can use my TCR Plus, it gives you some more options — but it’s not free for the extended version.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/tcrPlus/index.html

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Deyson Ortiz]

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[Robert Lipop]

This topic appears in the FCP section, but i am trying to accomplish this in Compressor.

In compressor there are filters that can be applied to the export settings. I want to add timecode, but i also want to add a custom name to the burned in data. and like the above poster i want this to be automated. I am a shooter, not an editor. I want to provide low rez burned in footage to the director and full rez files to the editor. and i want them to be able to talk intelligently about them.

I think there is some kind of code that i can insert into the “Text Generator” field of compressor that will make a REFERENCE and pull that metadata field and insert it into the burn in.

for example: (i found this on a windows based burn in tool)

“The Custom text control allows you to provide a short piece of arbitrary text (up to 255 characters in length) to be burned-in with the metadata. This might be a comment, or an identifier that you use in your video project. You can also use one of the following special formatting codes which expand to the name or pathname of the input file:
Custom Text formatting code Description
@P – The full pathname of the file – e.g. C:examplepathnamemyfile.avi
@F – The file name (including file extension) – e.g. myfile.avi
@f – The file name stem (the part of the file name that preceeds the extension) – e.g. myfile
@e – The file name extension – e.g. avi
@@ – The ‘@’ character

I do not ever want to get to FCP, i want to stay in Compressor. Some kind of metadata reference syntax…… Any ideas?

[Paul Levin]

I’m trying to do this as a transcode as well. I’m working on a film, so doing this manually on each of my 1400+ clips isn’t a great option.

TCRplus is an option, but it would mean a hefty render every time I output. It works, but not ideal.

What I’d like to do is create proxy clips with filename and TC burn-ins, use those to offline edit. The only program I can find that will do this is MB Grinder, which would be perfect except it won’t keep my timecode. (shot on XD-CAM, no thm files)

any thoughts?

[Paul Levin]

found a solution, for any who need it. DaVinci Resolve Lite (free program, whoohoo!) will do it.

[Cory Langley]

is there a video tutorial on using Devinci Resolve Lite to display file name on the video clip in FCPX – similar to what ‘time code reader’ does in FCP 7? As others have mentioned, with 100’s of clips, using ‘titles’ is a time consuming nightmare

[Paul Levin]

GEtting the filename onthere is the easy part, learning the workflow of the program is a bit harder, just because it’s not the usual editing system workflow. here:

https://www.colorgradingcentral.com/davinci-resolve-tutorials

In a nutshell, go to the “color” page, and theres a little flame symbol in the middle of the screen. (get it? flame? burn-in? haha) anyway that’ll bring up all the burn in options, clip name, timecode, etc. If you want to have shot/take# on there as well, you may need to enter all that metadata on the media page first. With a bit of fiddling, you’ll figure it out. That tutorial is quick, and will help a bunch.

[Silvio Valente]

Hi Daniel your great offline solutions was very helpful. It’s work!

May I ask you how do you use TitleExchangePro? Because I already use it, but I don’t know how to reach the same outcome, namely, how can I burn Clipname and TC on clip from XLR camera?

Thank you.

[Daniel Frome]

Super old post! Unfortunately I haven’t used FCP or TitleExchangePro in many years. I frankly don’t remember how it all worked. Sorry about that.