Easy clip naming trick

While logging (yes some people do still do this) or digitizing from tape, if you continuously change the bin name to match the scene name that makes sense to you, the clips will automatically be named accordingly – saving a lot of typing.

For example: You have a tape which contains clips related to a forest walk, a meeting with village elders and various general views of the village. Start by calling the bin “Forest walk”

The clips will be named Forest walk.01 through Forest walk.xx. NO TYPING REQUIRED!

Now change the bin name to “Meet Village Elders”. The new clips will be so named, starting at Meet Village Elders.01

Do the same with “Village GV”. If necessary append further descriptive words to the Village GV.xx clip names such as “chief’s house”, “well”, “schoolhouse”… whatever.

You might as well overwrite the automatically generated clip number in this instance, as your descriptive word will be more useful than the number.

Remember to copy and paste where possible. It saves a lot of time, and if you do not know the keyboard shortcuts for this, learn them today. They are arguably the biggest time saving functions when using any computer application.

~ by schmidtsk on April 29, 2008.