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[Robin S. Kurz] “For me, a simple Automator script saved as a system service (available via right-click in the Finder) does the trick.”
That won’t add TC or embed a reel ID if needed.
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If needed, there are other options, yes.
– RK
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Not in terms of translatable databasing.
Tim
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[Robin S. Kurz] ”
See the various solutions above.”You’d have to import clips into a library in FCP X. Close FCP X. Delete the library. Rename the clips in the Finder. Open FCP X. Create a new library. Import the clips with the new filenames. That’s not an elegant solution.
[Robin S. Kurz] “Whereby I don’t get the need for sparse bundles to begin with.”
If you worked off a NAS you would. 🙂
[Robin S. Kurz] ” Hmmm… sounds like the cake and eating thing to me. If that were feasible, I’d say they’d have done it.”
To clarify. What I mean is the import grinds to a halt. I have to stop working for the import to continue. There are times I’d rather live with a performance hit and import at the same time. With a card transfer utility, you’d only lose some disk access speed when working concurrently.
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[Brett Sherman] “You’d have to import clips into a library in FCP X. Close FCP X…”
Oh well, if that’s what you need… I simply use metadata and FCP’s batch renaming if actually needed, since Finder names are completely irrelevant to me. The organization within FCP is what’s key for me.
[Brett Sherman] “If you worked off a NAS you would.”
I do.
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“since Finder names are completely irrelevant to me”
Weird. Finder media names are among the most important things in all of my workflows.
Oliver
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[Oliver Peters] “Finder media names are among the most important things in all of my workflows.”
Horses for courses as they say. File names in the context of FCP X is the least relevant metadata information I can think of. And if I actually needed different names for organizational reasons, I always have FCP’s batch renaming. If there’s anything I do in the Finder first, then it’s prep using folders and/or Finder tags which I then import as keywords. At the very latest at that point is when the original file names become most irrelevant for me, yes. The names can’t tell me anything I don’t already know and at the same time can’t show me an abundance of other things I do need to know, no matter the nomenclature. So I don’t bother.
– RK
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Horses for courses as they say. File names in the context of FCP X is the least relevant metadata information I can think of.”
The issue comes in when you have to hand off a sequence to someone else for effects, grading, etc. Depending on the interchange format, it is often critical that the media file names, NOT clip names are correct and useful. Unique file names, valid TC and reel IDs are what many applications fall back on, regardless of what these are called in FCP X.
A second function is what happens when you need to revisit media 5 or more years later? You may have moved on to another NLE or the versions are no longer compatible. If the media file names make sense and are properly organized at the finder level, then this becomes a lot easier.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “A second function is what happens when you need to revisit media 5 or more years later?”
But this is FCPX he’s talking about and Apple has decreed that no one needs to worry about 5 year old projects or backwards compatibility. In Appleland the future is now and the past is never. Plus he can always boot up the latest iteration of X, because one thing we also know is that Apple never kills off applications.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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