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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