[Update: I'm told that this issue has been resolved by the latest version of Final Cut Pro, which I don't have yet. Still running 6.]No Unique Clip Names
Strange that, as far as I've been able to determine, our new Panasonic AF100 doesn't seem to create unique names for each shot, or file. This means that, during Log & Transfer in Final Cut Pro, you come up with a bunch of transcoded Quicktime files with duplicate names, like multiple copies of "Clip #2."
Of course you rename the clips in FCP, using scene and take number and such, but if you have to reconnect media-- and you always have to do this at some point-- when you try to guide FCP to the appropriate QT file, it finds multiple QT files with the same name.
Keeping the QT files in separate bins is one solution, but it's not good enough, because your FCP clips get renamed and put into bins according to Scene number (at least ours do.)
Here's the workaround I've come up with for Mac:
- Log & Transfer in FCP;
- In the Finder and change the QT clip names to something unique;
- Back in FCP, delete all the new clips; and
- In the Finder window, drag the new clips into FCP.
So the next question is: How do you rename all those clips without doing it one by one.
Our genius editor, Anisha Tomlinson, pointed me to a program called Batch File Rename. I haven't tried it yet, but if it lives up to its title, my life post-life will become much less tedious.
So, that's complaint #1. (Caveat: There may be something I don't yet know about the camera, which is in most other respects wonderful, but my research so far seems conclusive.)
- PH
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Or you can just import them in their separate folders like with the HVX and rename the folder.
Wish that solved the problem. If you ever reconnect media, you would then have to hunt down the right Finder folder. That would be easy, except that, if you've renamed your clips and put them into new bins according to scene, it becomes more complicated.
Hey Peter, if you right click in the file in final cut pro you can rename it in finder as well and you won´t have to re-import the files with the new name. Also you can use Automator, an apple software that let you do batch of anything you can imagine. Rename Files, convert them to different formats and so on. Hope this helps.
Thanks for that suggestion, Gustavo!
In FCP 6 (which I'm running) you can go to each clip's associated file in the Finder by right-clicking, but you can't change the name within FCP.
Regardless, it seems most efficient to batch-change the QT file names, which you have to do with another program.
I'm using "A Better Finder Rename" which works well.
Thanks!
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