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Rename Tool in FCP6
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the point was that this gives you the ability to do “capture now”s and then quickly re-name them.
i cant see 6 editors crawling all over the newly captured files until the assistant has dealt with them.
of course anything can happen.on the whole it seems like a good feature.
nick
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[Shane Ross] “No…this is a NEW feature. Currently if you rename a clip in the Browser, the captured clip on your Media drive stays the same. So if it was captured as UNTITLED-1, and you rename it WIDE-MAN CROSSES STREET…the Quicktime media remains UNTITLED-1.
BUT, with the new feature, if you gave the clip the same name, the Quicktime clip on the media drive would also change to WIDE-MAN CROSSES STREET. This can be dangerous as 6 people access that clip, and if the name changes on one, the other 5 lose the connection and cannot reconnect, as they don’t know the new name.”
I know what it does.
Again, you missed my point. There are already other ways an editor can alter media and screw up other people on the same shared storage. Changing it in the finder, changing the reel name, etc. It’s not like the possibility of this problem didn’t exist before. Maybe it’s more likely to happen now, but there is the option to turn it off.
Anyway, editors on shared storage shouldn’t be changing file names with disregard to everyone else. That’s what the description field is for.
Sean
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[Sean ONeil] “It’s not like the possibility of this problem didn’t exist before. Maybe it’s more likely to happen now, but there is the option to turn it off.”
Right. It’s only become easier.
Before it was “operator error”. Now it’s a feature! And I wouldn’t be surprised if in a month or 2 we’ll start seeing urgent postings here from people operators who erred by using this feature (insert evil laugh here).
Now for those of us who are, say, more aware of the possible liabilities, it could be a very useful feature, and open up some new options in workflow. So, like most things, there are pluses and minuses.
Arnie
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i agree.
i like the tool,
but i can see it will cause some to tie themselves in knots.i’m surprised this hasn’t been brought up with the “edit anything in any timeline” feature though.
i can see that being a real problem for those starting out.
Q: i cut my PAL footage and now i cant play out to my PAL camera
A: is your sequence perhaps NTSC?
Q: gee, how do i know?i see so many people blithely cutting their anamorphic footage in to 4/3 timeliness.
FCP “fixes” the problem for them so they have no idea.
so yes, cutting in the wrong timeline is gonna get a whole lot worse.nick
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Amen.
And add in there a lack of understanding of 2:3 pulldown!
-Russ
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“And add in there a lack of understanding of 2:3 pulldown!”
that’d include me! – i’m a PAL-ster.
but if i had to work with it, i’d at least RTFM 🙂nm
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