Basic Capturing/logging question

For capturing footage, I usually hit the Capture "Now" option, and then label the clip after it's captured.
However when I do this, the actual file just gets labeled as "Untitled" in the folders on the computer.
How do I label a clip while it's actually being captured in FCP? Do I capture with the Capture "Clip" option?
Like I said, very basic question, but would help me out immensely. Thanks.

shocker11 wrote:
The Capture Now thing I'm getting now. However, I'm still getting confused for this logging and then batch capturing deal. I hit "set marker" for each of my in and out points on where I want to capture, however, it doesn't seem to log it into the "log window" correctly.
You log clips not by placing markers in an extended clip, but by setting In and Out points for smaller clips. Once you've determined where you'd like your clip to begin, press I. When you know where you'd like the clip to end, press O. Then press F2 to Log Clip.
Not to be snarky - because I really hate it when folks get told to read the manual - but this really is one of those times where skimming through the relevant sections of the manual will answer all of your questions. So you might want to give that a shot, since that's the best step-by-step that I've seen.

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Waiting for 2 jobs
Waiting for 2 jobs
Waiting for 2 jobs
Waiting for 2 jobs
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But as you can see it's not obvious which script is which. In your real scripts you could include some identifiers to distinguish them.
Another way would be to grab the output of each job one at a time:
foreach ($job in $jobs) {
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