Re: change name of clip in browser and ripple to project?

[Tony Sarafoski] "the timeline has already been built...! one would hate to be in FCPX :-(

Anyway I'm not arguing my point, just saying what if....?

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I think as we all develop our chops, we're going to see that the kind of thing you're looking for is pretty easy via XML implementation.

In the same way Phil Hodgets Event Manager used XML to "hide or show" events within X, I'd almost bet that useful "clip name management" tools will eventually come out that have the same friendly front-end applied to the process.

I am a bit concerned that in a relational database where everything is interconnected, even something as seemingly trivial as re-naming a clip can have reasonably complex consequences. ID info has to be updated not only at the clip level, but across all instanced where that clip might be referenced inside the database.

If, for example, you're using a company logo that you've used across a dozen projects - a change to the name of that asset might have to be "managed" across a wide range of projects, shared files, and links.

I'm just not informed enough about the underpinnings of the X database to know if that's pretty simple, or numbingly complex.

Always more to learn here.... ; )

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