Naming compound clips?

[Tom Wolsky]

Odd that isn’t it that you can’t name them. Good feature request. You can name them if you make the compound clip in the Event Browser. Would be nice if you could rename them, maybe in the Timeline Index.

All the best,

Tom

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[Brendan Gibbons]

You can name your compound clips that you have created in the timeline….like many things in X, it’s not that obvious.

Select your new compound clip in the timeline

Go to the video inspector ( command + 4)

Choose the “info” tab at the top of the inspector

By default it is set to “settings view”

Go to the bottom of the inspector where you see a dropdown menu saying “settings view”

change this to either basic or extended view.

Once you have done this you’ll find an editable name field….

Not exactly obvious is it.

Cheers,

Brendan

[Tom Wolsky]

Thanks. That’s obscure, and way more buried than it should be.

All the best,

Tom

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[David Burch]

Thanks, Brendan. I was just coming here to post the same thing but you beat me to it 🙂 I have to give props to Steve Martin of Ripple Training…he replied to my email within an hour and gave me this solution. Of course, props to Brendan as well for answering my question on here!

[Matt Callac]

[Tom Wolsky] “That’s obscure, and way more buried than it should be.”

I guess It makes us weird that we want to name something right when we create it.

-mattyc

[David Burch]

After playing with it for a few hours it’s not so bad if you keep the inspector open all the time, or at least while doing this stage of the edit. It’s funny, the way FCPX works I find myself spending a lot more time on setup than actual editing, but that’s mainly because the edits themselves are much more fluid to do once the setup is complete.

[David Battistella]

I really like this. Especially when breaking down doc footage. You can cut a clip to bits for audio, make it a compound clip, name it, thematically or by the first few words or the essence.

Then as you move compound clips around you can structure them just by having a look at the content.

I used to do this with multiple nested sequences, it’s so much easier now. When you are assembling you can literally look at the words in the timeline and decide, “ok, say this, then this then that, no wait, switch that, etc.” so fast for creating a story.

David.

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[Isabelle Maccrimmon]

David,
would you please expand a bit on

[David Battistella] “You can cut a clip to bits for audio, make it a compound clip, name it, thematically or by the first few words or the essence. “

My clips are coming in a long lengths as the camera keeps running through the interview. I usually get 2 angles, which I sync into a compound clip, and then break things down via keywords and favorites. I’m still trying to find which method works best for me. But of course, everything still has the compound clips’ name, even though Ideally (or previously in FCP7) I would have broken the thing down into sub clips and renamed each, for ease of navigation once things are cut in the timeline.

Just curious as to how you break down those sub clips, and do you have to then sync each broken clip individually?

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