[Nina Lucia]

When you change the clip names in the bin they live in, they will change in the sequence as well.

If you are only concerned with the clips in the sequence and not the others, you can go to “set bin display” > “show reference clips” and it will now list all the clips in the sequence along with the sequence. You can rename them here, or option + drag them into another bin and then you can keep them in a bin and rename them there. I would copy them into another bin so that you have a bin with the clip names saved. Then you can put the sequence bin back to not show reference clips and if the names ever revert, just open the new bin with the renamed clips in it to change them back. (Unless you already have them in a bin and are changing the name there.)

I would open all bins with sequences when you rename any clips as sometimes they hold the data and will overwrite the names back to the camera file names when opened. At least this used to happen, don’t know if it was ever ‘fixed’.

[Nina Lucia]

One other thing you can do if this helps you achieve your goal (which I’m not sure what the goal is), you can rename the video track. Right click on it and select Rename Track and call it B-Roll.

Or if you have to know which clips are B-Roll by looking at the timeline, why not color all those clips a certain color then use “local color” or whatever it’s called as a setting in your timeline. Then wherever those clips land, you’ll always know they are B-Roll.

If you can explain why you need to have the B-Roll on V2 and not have a V1 even if it’s empty people can better help you come up with a solution. But I can’t figure out why you can’t have an empty V1 track or why you have to keep all your B-Roll on V2 when you are presumable making sequences that are only B-Roll selects, so you already know they are all B-Roll.

[Nina Lucia]

Yes, do it in subcaps. I can’t explain it properly as I have to play with it to remember it exactly, but you create one in subcap, then you can save that as a ‘template’. Then you can trim that out over the entire area you are going to need the title on. Lift out any areas you don’t need them on.

Now you will have the same title over each shot. Go to edit the second one, then there’s a selection to edit master list or something like that. Select that and you will get a list of all your titles and you can edit the text of each one and it will remain in the same style as your first one, just the text will change.

Another method is using the subcap generator tool that I’ve used for vfx titling, but it limits what you can do with the text. It basically adds a suffix in incremental numbers, but I don’t like the numbers it starts with so I haven’t used it so much for the text but it will lay a subcap over each shot with the locator to length and then you just have to edit the text. So if you have a certain color locator on each shot you want a subcap on, then spit out an edl, open it in the tool at your finder/desktop level, it will find each of those shots and generate a subcap list that you then import back into Avid and it will place a subcap over each of those shots. I can’t remember who made it and didn’t find it with a quick google search.

This isn’t the tool I have used but same idea, instructions are there at the link:
https://www.evanschiff.com/bd/articles/tag/subcap

[Nina Lucia]

So are you saying you don’t want to have an empty V1 track on your record side? If so, what is the reason for that? Does it matter if you keep an empty V1?

What would happen if you added back the V1 in the B-roll you’re using as source? Then when you cut over to a new sequence at least the picture should land on V2. You would still have an empty V1 though. But easy to delete that once you’re done building that sequence. Eliminates the step of creating V2 and moving everything up. You might have to change the setting for new sequences to create two video tracks as Glenn suggested.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks for the replies.

I’ve moved out all Avid folders to another drive when I installed the various versions since the uninstall process leaves behind many Avid items. No changes from before or after moving.

It was interesting to me finding that folder. I didn’t know it existed. Something to probably clean out from time to time…

[Nina Lucia]

EDIT –

Okay, I see it for a picture clip but it’s greyed out for audio clips. So is there really no way to relink an audio clip that was AMA’d? That’s weird!

I’m having the asst who synced the dailies try transcoding the audio clips to see if he can send me the Avid media for the audio so I can get the audio online then transcode the picture. Do you know offhand if the audio he will send me should link up on my end? We’re in different states so looking for a fast solution without having to resync everything.

We are in the process of doing a test on two clips now.

[Nina Lucia]

“The reason I used premiere to sync is that the video files that had a reference track, had very low volume and where clipped at the same time.”

Perhaps you could have done same in Avid, I don’t know, I don’t usually have to do the syncing, but it’s worth a look.

So did they not use a slate/sticks for the footage? If yes, and you can’t sync automatically using waveforms or timecode, it’s not that time consuming to mark the sticks on both picture and sound in Avid then using ‘auto sync’ > ‘sync by inpoints’ to create your synced clip. Map a key on your keyboard for the ‘auto-sync’ command to make it faster, then select each picture and audio that goes together, hit your mapped key and repeat for each clip.

[Nina Lucia]

Have you tried unchecking some things when manually relinking? Such as ‘only link to media in current project” or something like that? You can also uncheck the case sensitive option. Sometimes changing a couple of those makes a difference, especially the project one since the new media isn’t associated with your project (I believe).

Also, make sure that you are asking it to load the media databases.

[Nina Lucia]

For syncing you don’t have to use the timeline. If you use the timeline then you have to subclip before auto syncing.

If your picture and sound have the same timecode you can just put all of it in one bin then select Auto Sync, select to sync by Source Timecode and it will make all your synced clips.

If you don’t have matching timecode you can mark all the slates on each clip them Auto Sync them using Inpoints.

Whichever way you do it, you still need to check each clip, especially if you do it by timecode since sometimes there’s a glitch with the sync jam.

[Nina Lucia]

Thanks Brent, good to know!