Overlaying TC and Clip Name…

[David Roth weiss]

Scott,

Sorry, there is no automated method for overlaying clip names on the video in FCP. However, I must ask, is it really necessary? For years film and video professionals have collaborated at the very highest levels by simply using timecode or edgecode with reel numbers, and without using clip names on the media. Is there really anything your client can ID without those numbers?

David

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[Andy Mees]

Scott

Andres Kiel’s TCR Plus app/filter combo can do this for you. Its a four part process whereby you first apply his filter to your clips as needed, then export an XML of your sequence, then run that XML through his app, and finally reimport the XML as produced by his app back into your project … the resulting sequence will have all the info. Yes its rather a long winded process, but none of the steps are either slow or difficult to perform and it is the only solution available that I’m aware of for what you’re looking for.

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/tcrPlus/index.html

Cheer
Andy

[Scott Steyns]

The footage was collected with several P2’s and much of it does not have any form of camera reports so there is no real organization to the clips beyond each clips embedded TC. I am providing the raw clips with TC burn and clip name burn so they can identify footage they want to use in the edit.. as the TC’s are all over the place.

I will check out the plug-in and see how it goes..

Cheers,
Scott.

[Jamie Kehoe]

I was certain that P2 provides metadata on the card, can’t you somehow write information into this metadata? I would think this could be opened in something like a text editor?

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