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Printing logs from FCP
How do you print your bin logs from FCP?????
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The short answer is you don’t. This is something incredibly frustrating, and one would think incredibly easy for Apple to program that we have been asking for since version 1. Alas, our requests have gone unheeded. Maybe FCP 6.
There are two fast ways around it. Screen capture and Exporting Batch List. Screen capture works well if you’re bin length doesn’t exceed your screen. Exporting Batch List works, but you don’t get icons. You open the Batch List in a word processor and copy and paste it into a spreadsheet. I use Appleworks. Others use Word and Excel.
Hope this helps!
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One of the biggest disappointments when I moved from Media100 to Final Cut Pro was the inability to print a clip bin list right from the application. Media100 was able to do this for as long as I remember, complete with clip thumbnail stills and could be color coded for best take, good take, etc if you had a color printer.
The only way to print a list from FCP is to import a CSV (Comma Seperated Value) or TAB delineated raw data file into a spreadsheet like Excel, OpenOffice or FileMaker Pro. It is important for you to know that you can arrange you bin columns in the order that you want to see your timecodes, reel numbers, duration, et al. You will have to hide the other columns that you don’t want to export. You can then save that bin column layout to something like “Log & Capture to Print” or “Print Bin“.
The following thread discusses databases for media, but one of the components of databases is the ability to print out the data.
Server Database by Michael on Jan 24, 2006 at 4:54:56 pmInquiring minds…
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