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About Automatic Filenaming During Capture Now
Unless you enter text in the Description field, Final Cut Pro automatically names media
files (and captured clips) using the following convention: Untitled, Untitled1, Untitled2,
and so on.
If you’re capturing a clip using the Capture Now command and the currently specified
name is already taken by a clip in the current Scratch Disk folder, the letter or number at
the end of the name is incremented. For example, if you use Capture Now to capture a
clip named “Office Clips1” and there’s already a clip in that project’s Scratch Disk folder
with the same name, the name is changed to “Office Clips2.” If there is already a media
file called “Office Clips A,” the current media file is called “Office Clips B.”
Alphabetical incrementing occurs if the last letter is preceded by a separating character
such as a space, underscore, or dash. For example, “ClipName-A” is incremented to
“ClipName-B,” but “ClipNameA” is incremented to “ClipNameA1.” If the last letter in the
clip name is preceded by a number, both the number and letter are incremented. For
example, “ClipName-2Z” is followed by “ClipName-3A.”
Automatically Creating Subclips Using DV Start/Stop Detection
If you are using a DV format (DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, or DVCPRO HD), you may
be able to create subclips automatically from start/stop metadata that is embedded in
video frames each time you stop and start the camcorder. This DV start/stop metadata
is captured and stored in the media file. Final Cut Pro can identify the location of each
start/stop marker (sometimes referred to as an embedded flag) to automatically place
markers in a clip. These markers can then be used to create subclips.
Note: DV start/stop metadata is not timecode. It is independent time-of-day metadata
recorded within the video data of your footage. When the time-of-day information jumps
dramatically from one shot to the next, Final Cut Pro recognizes that the shot has changed
and can place a marker at that point in the clip.
To break a long DV clip into subclips based on starts and stops
1
Capture a long clip from a DV tape containing several starts and stops.
Note: If you’re capturing the contents of an entire DV tape, make sure that the “On
timecode break” pop-up menu in the General tab of the User Preferences window is set
to Make New Clip, to ensure that no timecode breaks are captured. For more information,
see
“Choosing Settings and Preferences.”
2
Do one of the following:
• Select the clip in the Browser.
• Open the clip in the Viewer.
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Capturing Video from Tape