Automatic filenaming during capture – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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Enter naming information for the clip by doing the following:
a
Enter a brief description in the Description field (click the Slate button to increment
this field by 1).
Note: After you capture an individual clip, the last number in the Description field is
automatically incremented.
b
Enter a scene number in the Scene field (click the Slate button to increment this
field by 1).
c
Enter numbers for the shot and take in the Shot/Take field (click the Slate button to
automatically increment the field by 1).
d
Enter a number for the angle (click the Slate button to automatically increment the
field by 1).
The text in the Name field in the Capture window is generated automatically from the
Description, Scene, Shot/Take, and Angle fields. However, only the fields whose
checkboxes are selected contribute to the clip name. Underscores in the clip name
separate the content of each included field. For example, the clip name “Man Talking
3_23_4” is generated from the Description “Man Talking”, the Scene “3”, the Shot/Take
“23,” and the Angle “4”.
Automatic Filenaming During Capture
If you want, you can deselect the checkboxes next to the logging fields in the
Capture window. In this case, the Name field remains empty, so Final Cut Express HD
names your media file for you. Final Cut Express HD automatically names media files
and their corresponding clips using the following convention: Untitled, Untitled1,
Untitled2, and so on.
If you’re capturing a clip 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 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.
Use this feature cautiously, or you’ll end up with a scratch disk full of files named Untitled.