keeping track of footage

[Todd Reid]

within the same timeline you can turn on “show duplicate frames” (user preferences) and footage you’ve used already will show up with colors (in the timeline), matching colors are matching clips.

I assume that you are working with multiple timelines, so a couple of suggestions.
1-when you use a clip, move it into a separate bin, then you know that all clips within the bin are used, and if its not in there, you can still use it.

2-control click on a clip you’ve used and use the color coded “labels”.
You can even rename the colors to anything you want to help with organization.

[Steve Eisen]

Show duplicate frames. It’s in your preferences. You will see a color bar in your timeline for duplicate clips.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Randy Lee]

Show duplicate frames will only work if you re-use the shots though, right? It won’t show you in the browser whether or not it has already been used. It really wouldn’t do much good if you were searching through your footage, trying to find that one other really nice shot that you haven’t used yet.

Since I normally don’t end up using labels for much else, our shots come pretty well organized in bins, I just hit cmd-a in the timeline (or select all the clips that I want to keep track of, if there is more in the timeline than you need to do this to), then apply a label, using cmd-option and a number 2 through 6. (1 goes back to the default no label). This doesn’t show you if you’ve used a shot more than once, but it will show you what you have and haven’t used, and since there are multiple colors, you can always get a little more creative in using it for your organization. Scene 1 is red, 2 is blue, and so on.

[David Prinzbach]

If you turn on the Show Duplicate Frames and leave it on, at least you know once you drop a clip into the timeline if it has been used or not.

Dave Prinzbach

Bridges TV