DSRLs in particular do not have provision to prevent duplicate names
like P2 and XDCAM do.
On 3/30/2012 9:32 PM, Michael Brockington wrote:
> I would be extremely wary of duplicate clip names. If you are relinking
> to AMA clips, that's typically based on clip name, is it not?
>
> Cheers,
> --Michael
>
> On 12-03-30 5:25 AM, Robert wrote:
>> So...
>>
>> This largish shop I just started working at shot this series on the
>> Sony FS-100. Apparently this is only reason I get to work on MC 6.
>>
>> They've told me that the import process - AMA style - doesn't allow
>> them to rename the clips, and because we're doing an online / offline
>> process, I can't rename the clips or the links to the original media
>> will break.
>>
>> But I've got 10 interviews, and the clip names for them are all the
>> same. So whether it's Mr. Big Shot or Mother of Crime Victim speaking,
>> my timeline just says "00000", "00001", etc. This is crazy to me;
>> somehow we've lost something that's been in NLEs pretty much since day
>> 1. That broll shot covering the cut? "00000".
>>
>> So my first question is this: does it really have to be this way? Is
>> there not some step they just skipped where they get a chance to
>> rationalize the file names between camera card and hard drive?
>>
>> And the second question is more practical; is there anything I can do
>> to make my edit less hair-pully-outey? I saw that now I've got the
>> option to display comments in the timeline, but that seems to line up
>> with the comments you add via the record monitor which were intended
>> to send a note to the online editor in the EDL, not the comments field
>> which you get in the script bin view (I think that's what it's
>> called). Any ideas? At this point I've just turned the text off and
>> turned the frame view on and I'm pretending I'm sitting at a Steenbeck.
>>
>> Thanks very much, gang.
>>
>> Robert Salsbury
>> reel: http://vimeo.com/channels/robertsalsburydocs
>> blog: blog.robertsalsbury.com
>>
>>
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