Name Keeps Changing

[Jerry Hofmann]

Make subclips instead. Mark and in and out point in the VIEWER then type cmd+u. You can name these anything you want.

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[Neil Sadwelkar]

Or open the clip in the viewer, place markers where you want to mark points of interest, and name the markers. You can even name markers in the browser.
After you’re done marking, highlight the markers in the browser, then do a Cmd-C and Cmd-V to another bin… and you’ll have subclips. And the original clips will also be tagged.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Raymond Flores]

Thanks Jerry. anyway to zoom in in the viewer that would give me the same kind of control like in the timeline? Trying to find the first frame on an hour long clip is proving difficult.

[Mark Raudonis]

This is a fundamental difference between Avid and FCP.

You should get in the habit of NEVER, EVER changing the file name in FCP. This will only lead
to frustration and grief. Better, you make your changes in a “notes” or “comments” column.

FCP uses the filename to link to media. It CAN handle this renaming, but you are setting yourself up for a disaster if you a) move to a different computer or b) try to do a classic “off-line to on-line” workflow.

Do yourself a favor and DO NOT bring this habit with you to FCP. There are plenty of other ways to do it OTHER than changing the file name.

mark

[Neil Sadwelkar]

No you can’t see a ‘source timeline’ in FCP. But the JKL for play rev-pause-play fwd work as well as jjj or kkk to speed up playback either direction work for searching. Then to home in on the frame you an use the right and left arrows.

Then M to place a mark. M again to rename the marker. We use this to create hundreds of subclips in feature film projects where one gets a ‘roll telecine’ and one needs to subclip all takes of all shots.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Steven Gladstone]

Definitely seems like making a subclip and renaming is the way to go for your work flow. As for zooming in, not sure if this is what you want, but in the Tools menu, you can select keyboard layout, and select customize. There you can make a key zoom into playhead. Perhaps this will help you.

Steven Gladstone
https://www.gladstonefilms.com

[Bret Williams]

Make the viewer really wide, and the canvas very small. That’ll give you more scrub room. Or drop the clip in a blank sequence and highlight it and then make markers ON the clip. Not the timeline.

[Noam Osband]

Neil, I’m wondering if you can answer this question. I have your exact workflow for dealing with long clips, but lately, the subclips created from markers arent carrying over the marker name. instead, they are just being given the generic subclip name (“Clip name Subclip 1”). This didnt use to happen and i’m not sure what preference I could have changed or what I could have done to make it happen now.

But it’s frustrating. Cause I’ve gotten used to this work flow and need to log/create clips out of a few long files.

Any thoughts?

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If you just place markers and create subclips from them using my method in an earlier reply, then of course the Markers will not have names. If, instead you name the markers in the browser or viewer and then highlight them and do a Cmd-C Cmd-V, the Marker name is retained.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Noam Osband]

That’s precisely my problem: it is not taking the marker name, even when I do Cmd-C and then Cmd-V. Instead, it is renaming it with the generic name it gives subclips without a name. Any other ideas? This is maddening. It was working fine a month ago!