how do you set a user clip name?
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Barry_Green
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Try this article; start about 1/3 of the way down for a discussion on the User Clip Name in P2. The AVCCAM implementation is nearly identical to the P2 implementation.
I was struggling with this as well but Barry's guide and page 23 of Vol. 2 of the manual cleared it up. I used the AVCCAM Viewer from Panny's site to edit and load the User Clip Name info. All of it worked fine and my clips are now being assigned a custom name with a counter, BUT and a huge BUT, it seems these newly assigned clip names can only be read by the AVCCAM Viewer which is useless to me. In FCS2 Log & Transfer, Im still getting the lame "Clip #1" etc etc., I realize I can custom name and counter these clips in L&T for every import I do and that's great and all. What I was hoping for is the same thing I have with my EX1 and every DSLR I've ever used. A rolling sequential master clip name/number that doesnt reset after every card erase. I know there is that crazy 64 digit "Global clip" but that's useless as well.
If I sound frustrated it's because I'am. This seems like a simple feature that most camera's would have. Any advice would be appreciated, if there is even a solution?.
If I sound frustrated it's because I'am. This seems like a simple feature that most camera's would have. Any advice would be appreciated, if there is even a solution?.
Steve Kahn
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Does Premiere CS5 recognize "User Clip Names"?
Barry_Green
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It does for P2, but I haven't figured out how to make it do it for AVCCAM. Which is weird because the metadata is exactly the same, so ... either it does it and I don't know how to make it do it, or it'd be a pretty minor fix.
Steve Kahn
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That's good to hear because if one can log clips this way for editing... how amazing is that! (I hate logging clips into bins manually by looking for slates)
Barry_Green
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Well, not only that, but if you're using Raylight with P2, it can automatically log the clips into different bins in FCP, based on the metadata. I don't know if he's planning on making a Raylight for AVCCAM, but if he did, that'd be pretty cool.