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Reel Names
Hi Everyone,
For the past 2 weeks I have been cutting a piece using low-rez stock footage comps with watermarks. The client has approved the piece and we need to order the footage, which comes from a dozen different stock houses. On AVID when I have created an EDL, it would list the reels at the bottom of the EDL. Does anyone know of a similar feature in FCP that will just list the reel names used so we don’t have to sift through the EDL or FCP timeline to create our stock list?
Scott Skaja
edit/design/animation
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2 Replies
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If you have assigned a Reel Name that matches the name of the Stock House, then that should show up in your EDL. If you simply left that blank, well you can still change that pretty easily in your bins. Simply change the Reel name of one of the clips in your Bin. Now highlight all the rest of the clips from the same Stock House, right click in the Reel column and select the appropriate Reel Name. This will apply that Reel Name to the rest of the clips.
Another easy way to do this in the future is to simply color code your stock clips and then put them on a designated video track.
When you’re done with the rough cut, simply pull all the clips off the timeline to a single Bin and you’ve got all the info right there in one place.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
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Export a CMX edl and run it through EDLhacker https://www.edlhacker.com/. It will give you a reel summary at the bottom including total time per reel.
John Heagy
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