Scripting: a shot in the dark

Sorry folks, i know this is bad forum etiquette: storm in and post without lurking at all but I'm in a pinch.
I don't even know if this is something FCP can do:
I am making an animatic from still 2d storyboards. I want to put titles on them (the clips in my timeline) that match the filename of the clips.
So when i cut to clip SC03_23.psd i see SC0323 in red letters in the corner pocket of my frame.
Since the titles will = file name, is there a script I can write that can do that automatically, to everything I import or place on the timeline? or will i need to go through and add titles to my shots after I lock my picture?
I know I could probably do it in shake. . .but i have hundreds of clips and adding an extra kink to my pipeline is about as labor intensive as adding the titles to my shots manually.
anyway, thanks for your time.

Welcome to the family, sorry this aitn' the answer you were hoping for, best I can think of, hope you get better advice.
FCP is not a versatile compositor and the timecode reader will not access any metadata you may have on your clips. However, there are third party filters that can sort of do that. So, if you applied a metadata tag field in Lightroom or Aperture that described your shot, you might be able to get one of these third party filters to grab that data and blast it onto the screen.
I have never used Shake but After Effects cannot do this to individual layers. You would have to create a comp for every item, place a text layer on top of it, and type in the text.
bogiesan

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