[George Felton]

Andy, we actually were successful in giving the sub clips their own individual names. The key is to make sure that subclip is highlighted in blue before you click import. In other words, we put in an out points on the master clip, and then went into the clip name field and named the sub. We then made sure that sub clip itself was highlighted in blue at the bottom of the window and hit import. We then went into that same master clip, deleted the earlier subclip, created a new sub, gave it a unique name, and again made sure only that sub clip was high lighted in blue at the bottom and hit import. And it worked in final cut and in FC Server. We also were able to go back and give that master its own name. The key is to have whatever you want to import, high lighted with the information you want associated with it BEFORE YOU CLICK IMPORT. We still haven’t found a way to batch import the sub clips with individual names, but at least this gives us some control over sub clip naming! Hope that helps some folks!

[George Felton]

Our dilemma is using final cut server. Our nascent work flow is opening up a project, using xdcam file transfer to look at clips while in the FCP studio project. We click on the information tab and put our logging information in there including naming the clip. We also put logging information as well as “good, not-good etc” shot info too. We have found that metadata transfers into FCP too.

Our question… Is it possible in the xdcam hd logging mode, to give each subclip that is created its own independent name and description? For instance, the master clip is of dogs. We want to make subclips of each of the dogs that are of different colors for instance, naming each subclip after the color of the dog. Can we do that, name those subclips independent of one another, with their own respective descriptions, and then transfer that information into FCP?

Also, is it possible to give the disk a “name” that will transfer into FCP? In the tape days, using the log and capture function, we would give each “reel” a tape number that was on the physical tape itself. What is the corresponding function in xdcam transfer that allows us to id the disk (we tried using “source) so that we can refer back to that particularly disk if we need to pull more shots from it?

Thanks!