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Make timeline clips have bin name?
I’m running a Meriden system with Avid Xpress 4.6.
My video and audio are from seperate sources (Beta tape and DAT tapes). I put them into one sequence and synced them up. I then opened the synced sequence into a pop-up monitor and started making my subclips. I renamed these subclips into the slate names (e.g. C2/3). I’m ready to edit and now made a new sequence. But when I put my synced subclips into the timeline, the clip names on the timeline are the original source media names. Is there anyway to make the timeline display the subclip name?
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Thinking some more: the clips I created are necessarily “subclips”. They’re “sub-sequences”, they even have the sequence icon in my Subclip bin. These are clip chunks take from my Synced Raw Footage sequence.
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To see your own custom text on your timeline clips use the “Add Comments…” feature on your Sub-Sequences. (I assume this is available on Xpress, too) Make sure your Timeline’s Fast Menu has Comments enabled in its view.
How to do it: Take one of your Sub-Sequences and load it into Composer. Use Red Segment Arrow to highlight it. Then reach for the “Add Comments…” feature somewhere near the top drop down menu.
You’ll get a Text box you can typo into, or Paste into (*probably).AFAIK, the text you enter there will always appear on the timeline clips used in your Sub-Sequence when you edit from that Sub-Sequence into your edit sequence. You can type your Sub-Sequence’s bin name there, but it won’t “update” if you move it into a different bin, or rename the original bin. Check it out!
As an aside, check out the Match Frame and Find Bin feature if you are not familiar with them.
Good luck
Matt S.
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Highlight all your subsequences that have been renamed to scene/take and select “AutoSync” from the BIN menu. This will turn them into real subclips (icon and all).
Michael
anything 24fps
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