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Reliable way to view list of all clips used in a sequence
Hi,
I often have the need to make lists of all video or audio clips used in a sequence, along with how many times they are used and the total duration each clip is used. I haven’t found a reliable way to do this in Avid. I should mention I’m in MC 3 on Unity 5, often working with complicated sequences spanning many users and multiple drives. My general process is:
Isolate sequence
Set bin view to Show Reference ClipsThe problem is if some of the Master Clips are not on the Unity, they won’t show up in this view. That means in order to see ABSOLUTELY everything you have to set the bin view to show Sources. However, this often introduces many sources that are no longer actually in the sequence (Sources used in old renders, etc). So this becomes unreliable.
I’ve also tried:
Decomposing/Consolidating- same problem as above
Creating an EDL – generally errors out with mixdowns- too time consuming.I feel like this isn’t that hard- I mean after all Premiere does it and will list how many times and durations! Anyone know a solution? Thanks in advance!
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Decompose or show reference clips should show what is related to the sequence regardless of whether the media is online or not. Are you saying that there are missing subclips/master clips when you do this?
Coming from the film world, I create a pull list in FilmScribe. It can export a TAB version of the file that can be used in Excel or FileMaker Pro.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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There is a new feature on MC v3 that displays a complete catalog of elements in your sequence. It’s added to the Composer Window/Right-Click tools.
I used it today to help locate a set of tiny EQ AudioSuite FX that were buried in my sequence- I had to remove them prior to a mix.
The new feature may do what you want, outputting results to Console or a Log file.
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Yes, master clips are missing. What happens is people will import clips into their own local projects, while the media is captured to the Unity. Then when viewing their sequences, those Master Clips don’t show up in a Reference View because they don’t exist on the Unity, but the media is still there and works in the sequence just fine. I really hoped Decomposing would work by making new master clips but it doesn’t.
I’ll have to check out that new Composer feature tomorrow. Thanks Matthew.
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I wasn’t able to find any feature like what you described- can you tell me exactly what its called and where its located?
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Zach,
Here it is online.Still not sure it does what you need, but check it out.
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Ahhhh I see I’m still on 3.0…better upgrade and check that out! Thanks again!
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