--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Anna Hovhannessian <annahovhannessian@...> wrote:
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> If you're nervous about renaming clips, The other option is to make stringouts.
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> You can stringout each interview in a sequence. Makes it easier anyway. Radio cuts are faster, scenes make more sense, finding timecode easier.
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> Same thing with Broll footage.
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> I rarely look at the clips anyway, i just go straight to the strings.
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> The only time I go to the footage bin is if I need to look at the metadata for some reason or troubleshoot something.
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I'm already working that way, the issue though is that when you cut from a string out reel into your timeline, you have nonsense info in this case as the underlying clip names are useless.
Thanks to everyone who's chimed in on this; I'm having a meeting early next week with the online folks to sort this out. I'm hoping there's been a miscommunication and everyone realizes clip names within a bin aren't the hard link to file name and just wants to make sure I don't go around renaming files on the Unity drives (!), but in case that's not the issue, I think I came up with a plan B.
I realized I could subclip the "00000", "00001" clips in their entirety and give them whatever name I want, and then make string outs from the subclips. Cutting from a string out of subclips puts useful info into the timeline, and it won' t be that onerous for the assistant to blast through a few bins in a couple of hours and make the change. In fact, Bouke's macro editor may help out with this as well.
-Robert
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