change name of clip in browser and ripple to project?

You can edit the clip name by selecting it and then clicking on the Info tab in the Inspector. From there you can edit the name.

I think this would be great, but not all the time. A right click behavior would be nice.

If its possible, I haven't found it.

There's good reasons to have it the way it is now, and good reasons to to have the option to ripple.

Now, you can match frame back to the Event, then replace in timeline. It's a pain.

If anyone knows something different, please enlighten us, but the "name ripple" doesn't seem possible at the moment.

Jeremy

[Tony Sarafoski] " I know it's tedious, but unfortunately there arnt many choices right now.
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For kinda good reasons.

X is built around a cascading metadata flow. Metadata attached to camera clips flow into the event browser, where it's added to or amended by the user, then the metadata from this state flows into the Timeline clips.

It's "one direction" by design.

That's why changes you make in the event browser "stick" are become available for use in unlimited subsequent project - and when they hit THOSE timelines - you don't want a change made at the end of the chain to "flow" back up to the event browser - and therefore to constantly change the default state of your EB clip.

If you allow every change in a clip on the timeline to reflect back to the source clip in the EB, then every time you go back to the EB, you couldn't depend on the clip to be in a reliable state. It would instead be in the "last state" anyone applied in the timeline.

Imagine that in a world where multiple editors want to use a centrally stored clip... the clip is tinted blue now, but when you go to grab it three seconds later, it's pink - because someone down stream changed the tint and it reflected back to the base clip in the EB.

That's a nightmare.

X is metadata, metadata needs a clear flow - particularly in a relational database where everything remains virtually linked to everything else.

Same old story. If you try to approach how X works exclusively by how thinking has been conditioned by how other NLES used to work - you're going to be fighting things a LOT more than you need to.

FWIW.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

[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.... ; )

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

Jeremy,

Thanks. And I stand not only corrected but delighted that re-naming isn't such a big deal in X.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor

Jeremy,

Does a Batch Rename in the Event Library maintain the correct relationship to the source footage further down the line?

For instance, say the H.264 Camera Source clip is A001_C001_123456.MOV.

-I run it through MPEG Streamclip and end up with a ProRes file.

-During the edit, I modify the clip name to 'Pack Shot Track In

-6 Months later, after I've deleted the ProRes footage and the client requests a change, will the Event Library point back to the original clip, ie A001_C001_123456.MOV ?

Sandeep.

PS: I haven't worked with FCPX, but am considering using it on a beauty spot next month so am working my way through the forums :)

Thanks Jeremy.

Have replied to this on the other thread.

Sandeep.