Logging clips for client effects

[Peter C.]

Is there a fcpx text effect to display the name of the clip. I would like to send the client a movie with all the takes filmed for the day. The files have been renamed 1c, 2c, etc Id like to put them into a timeline and drop a text effect that will automatically generate a title based on the clip name that the client can see and tell me i like 2c the best. Id rather not have to create custom titles for 50 clips.

 

[NorBro]

If there is one I don't know about it, but I have done this manually for pretty much my entire career and would like one as well.

It's tedious but I'm fast enough to get it done in about 20 minutes, usually around 100 clips.

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I stretch out a long text element across all of the clips, which is usually called "#1" and then manually cut and edit, #2, #3.

Pretty straightforward but would be much more time-consuming if I had to rename every clip something a lot different.

One little trick I learned is that if I'm showing someone b-roll (which I always clean-up on my end for every job), I try to get every shot the same length (select all and change duration to 8 seconds, or 10 seconds, etc), and then copy-and-paste older timelines with the above numbers which also have been made to run 8 seconds, or 10 seconds.

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Isn't so convenient with every project - and you'll always have to adjust here and there - and I'd much rather have AI do it - but it works nonetheless.

Let us know if you find a plugin that can recognize clip lengths and apply watermarks.

 

[Peter C.]

I have this process where I look at every clip by opening it from the finder in quicktime player then trim it or discard it if it was a mistake. then I have a file renamer utility. If Im doing a two camera shoot rename them manually so the two camera use the same number ie closeup camera 1 would be named 1c and the corresponding wide camera would be 1w then its easier to know what clips sync together.

I have a feeling there isnt a title effect that automatically inserts the clip name

 

[NorBro]

That's crazy though...why wouldn't you be doing this in FCP?

You can dump everything in one timeline (have that as a main back-up) and then duplicate that timeline and do all of the trimming in it, which could be used for any potential editing in the future.

Everything would be ready...quick moving around of clips, copying-and-pasting.

I guess to save some space?

But just seems like all of that reviewing is being wasted by not having the clips arranged and cleaned up in a NLE. That's when you can also make any important notes and color corrections.

 

[Peter C.]

its for dance so they might have a mis-start or play part of the song over again until they get to the place they want. so im cutting out all the stuff where they are waiting for the part they want to redo. they are dancing once through then reshooting sections they want a different angle.

 

[Charlie Ross]

This is probably a long shot but hey, that's how things start sometimes. It goes along the lines of IF you can get a list of those filenames in ASCII or plain text, with line breaks separating filenames.
Take that list into a subtitle program. Generate the subtitle overlay file and import it in the manner that "burns" it permanently as a layer over the clips, not as closed captions. For timecodes required by the subtitler just keep it very simple because as a layer you can chop it up and slide the names where needed. I wouldn't attempt matching time code for your purpose.

Don't ask me what programs to use because it was a lifetime ago that I did over 14 hours worth of continuous subtitling for Young Drivers of Canada classroom DVDs. Never had occasion to use that acquired knowledge again.