I have a dillema that I know I can find work arounds for, but there must be a better way. The situation is this. I have several clips stacked on a timeline. They are all from the same source clip, but they have different sync points that have been matched to a reference. To identify which is which, I have given them appropriate names. When I select them all and go into bfx the names are the same as the file name (in this case, unhelpful since they are all from the same dpx file) rather than the names I see on the segments in the timeline. Am I missing something? No work arounds please, I can handle it.
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Good question. Itâs super annoying but I donât know the answer. Just make notes of the timing offsets?
If you pull the clips off the timeline, then bring them in to the BFX from the reel, theyâll keep the new names
Right click on it in batch/bfx and select split tracks? Should maintain your naming
Yes, but thatâs a work around.
Not finding any split tracks option under any right clicks.
Wierd, maybe itâs the clip type that isnât letting you do that.
If I select both tracks, and enter BFX with Selection as Clip, I can then select split and I get two clips with the correct names, but they are at timeline resolution rather than Source resolution. If I then explode those clips I get them at Source resolution, but they revert to the old names. And under no scenarios can I see source timecode.
If you copy paste that timeline into a source resolution that matches your timeline it should work, a work around but should work
Iâm doing something so much simpler. Iâve just added âleftâ and ârightâ to two clips that look exactly the same except for a few frames sync being different. When I go into BFX I just want them to say ârightâ and âleftâ without a big song and dance. There a zillion workarounds, but it just seems so logical that one could keep the same names they see on the segment.
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Or taking the clip color as labelled in the timeline into BFX would be great.
I think the one thing I think it does do is respect the layered nature of the timeline, so if you have the clips on different layers and take them all into BFX together the BFX schematic will lay out the clips in the correct vertical height, if you see what I mean. So if âperson 1â was on layer 2 and âperson 2â was on layer 1 when you take those all into BFX âperson 1â would be physically higher in the schematic. But maybe that doesnât work in every scenario.
I usually add a text effect to each clip the timeline and label the clips as âperson 1â and âperson 2â, then when you go into BFX with âSelection as flowgraphâ selected you can see which is which.
But this is also an unnecessary step, really and it should be more transparent.