Subclip naming

After using DVD start stop and making subclips out of the results, the names of the subclips are "Segment 1 from...", "Segment 2 from...". In addition to being excessively wordy, because there are no leading zeros, they sort charcter by character as
Segment 1 from...
Segment 10 from...
Segment 100 from...
Segment 101 from...
Right now I am manually renaming the first 100 subclips.
Clips captured from HDV have a common file name with an appended sequence number, again with no leading zeros, but for some reason they stay in propoer order. Is that because the number is at the end and therefore treated as a number? Is there a way to cause the subclips to be named in this manner?

I've done it both ways, not sure which is easier.
HDV capture creates individual clips (individual media files) based on the detected start/stop and uses a name you specify at the initiation of the capture appending a sequence number to the end of the name for each new clip. S/S detect always uses the name "Segment". Like the Segment clips, HDV clips are in natural order, as you say. I'm guessing that the file system is smart enough to consider the entire number at the end of a name, but sorts character by charcter if the number is in the middle of the name.
Just seems a little short sighted to use different naming conventions for essentially the same function, especially when it causes the files to be out of order.

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'Un-nest' function in PP CS4?

Hey guys,I have been working on a video and I nested some clips together, I havent been able to find an 'un-nest' command, and a quick google search didn't provide me with any help. Is there either a function to un-nest or easy work-around?
Cheers

I guess there's still some confusion over this workflow. It is more efficient to watch a series of clips, then to watch one clip at a time. I don't want to watch clips INDIVIDUALLY, I want to watch a SERIES of them, back to back to back to back. I want to scroll through 10 clips without ever touching the mouse. The way to do that is to put those 10 clips into a sequence, and cut from that sequence. I swear to you guys this is normal, particularly for anybody that comes from the world of Media Composer. Once you've edited this way, the idea of loading an individual clip one at a time seems wasteful and ludicrous. Every time I'm worrying about what's in the browser, I'm not editing. Every time my hand leaves the keyboard to go to the mouse to double-click a clip to load it, I'm not editing. These are time sinks.
Let's say I've got three takes of the same shot, and they're all roughly similar. If I'm editing from clips, or subclips, then this is the workflow:
I load scene 12b take 1 into the source. I watch it. It's okay. Next, I take my right hand away from JKL to reach for the mouse/trackball/track pad, mouse over to the browser, double-click on take 2, load it into the source monitor. Hand moves back to JKL. I watch the clip. Okay, it's a'ight. So now I have to watch take 3. Again, hand leaves keyboard, clip is double-clicked, hand comes back to JKL. Now I've watched all three. Hmm. Let's take a look at that first one again. You know where I'm going. This time I use the mouse to go to the clip select in the source monitor pulldown. Okay, then I watch the clip again. Hmm. Maybe this one. Let's look at the third one again, because something was weird with the way talent said the word "species." Okay, up to the source monitor. Okay, definitely take 1. Hands off the keyboard again, back to the source monitor. Okay. Now I'm ready to mark my ins and outs.
That's one way to go. Let's take a look at using sequences.
I load the scene 12b sequence into the source monitor. I hit L and start playing. I've now watched all three takes. I want to return to the first take, so I hit the "previous edit" key twice. Now I'm back to take 1. L button and I'm watching, okay, I've seen all I need, let's hit "next edit" twice and jump to take 3. Hit L twice to fast forward to the word "species." Sounds kinda wack. Let's hit that previous edit key again (I've got it mapped to "A" so my hand never leaves the homekeys) and go back to take 1. Mark in, mark out, and now it's time to insert this shot into the sequence.
In MC and FCP (using the insert sequence content command instead of the plain insert command), this cuts the clip into the sequence. In PP, this cuts a nested sequence into my sequence. For starters, now I am unable to export this sequence as an OMF to get to ProTools. That's a deal-breaker in a professional environment. Then, I've got this nested sequence that has no real reason to be nested. For starters, a quick glance at the timeline reveals not which take I actually used or the name of the master clip, but rather the name of the entire sequence. Matching back goes back to the sequence, as opposed to the master clip.
If you already know exactly which take you're going to use, without looking at other takes, then a subclip straight from the bin is a fine edit strategy. But I've found that circled takes don't always cut well with each other for continuity reasons or technical reasons. Therefore, being able to watch a series of clips, quickly, without incessant mousing around (which indisputably is slower than tapping a key once or twice) from timelines to monitors to browsers and back is of great importance. It's a usability issue. When doing realities or doc stuff, the same is true. I'd way rather scrub through a whole sequence of shots of "heat energy" than have to load each clip which demonstrates heat energy individually. That's a real life example from a series of fairly hoaky educational videos I worked on. We had 100s of tapes worth of footage, and if we had to load individual clips, that would mean scrolling through thousands of clips. I'd spend more time looking for the actual clip I wanted than watching shots. As Walter Murch suggests, scanning through footage is also a more helpful process than scanning through folders or bins of clip names. If I'm scrubbing through a sequence called "HEAT" looking for just the right shot, I'm being exposed to all of my footage, even at high speeds. I might find something I hadn't thought of using, or see a shot that I might want to use later. If I'm scanning through a bin looking for a subclip named "boiling water" then I might not see some of that other stuff. That lessens the chances of happy accidents, and I'm less familiar with the actual visual content of the footage than if I had scrubbed through a sequence.
This isn't some crack-pot editing method I dreamed up in a vacuum. It's a pretty common method that has been around as long as NLEs (as far as I know, or at least since I began using professional NLEs in 1999). Avid editors aren't just salty old-timers who think all this new-fangled stuff is crap. As any of us, we've all gotten used to FCP, but we're still annoyed by some of the inelegant, time-wasting design flaws. And as we explore Premiere Pro, the same is true. Something that requires five keystrokes and click wastes more time than something that requires two keystrokes. That stuff adds up at the end of the day.
As for FCPX, the magnetic timeline scares the heck out of me. Collapsible tracks sound interesting, like a way of opening up a nested sequence, but FCPX most certainly doesn't offer the functionality I'm looking for (about that OMF export... oh yeah, and it doesn't even HAVE a source window, nor can I easily keep things on the tracks I want them on -- nightmare for keeping all of one's music on these two channels, and all of one's VO on that channel... like every broadcaster or client wants their masters tracked out). Oh, and since I'm talking about tracks... this whole stereo track/mono track thing is a little clunky. To most editors, we think that a stereo track is just two tracks. Channel 1 and Channel 2, and those can be panned left and right. If I have four tracks, I should be able to put L and R in any one of those tracks, and mono clips into any one of those tracks, because there's no difference between a mono clip and a stereo clip's channel 1, except panning. To have tracks that can only accept one or the other is just plain clunky. So -- additional feature request. Let me cut a stereo clip into two mono tracks. Without having to break-out to mono and perform 3 edits, instead of one.
I know I've been really verbose. But, honestly, Premiere Pro is really close to actually being Pro, and I'd love to use an affordable, and feature-full 64-bit NLE that integrates with the other software I use. On a PC? Great! That saves me a grand on hardware. Premiere Pro can be this software, IF Adobe listens to long-time professional editors and incorporate standard usability. Not listening to editors is what made FCPX such a lemon.

Loading External Clips: Why is a new "instance" clip created?

When I load an external movie clip using loadMovie, or the
MovieClipLoader class, there is always a subclip named "instance"
followed by an instance number attached to whatever clip I am
loading the external swf into. For instance, I have a clip on the
stage called "container". I load an external clip like this:
container.loadMovie("clip.swf");
"clip.swf" ends up in container.instance01, rather than
container. Is there a way to load a clip into container, the same
way using attachMovie with a local library clip would?

quote:
Originally posted by:
Rothrock
So obviously in your clip.swf there is a clip at the top
level containing all your content and you haven't given it a name.
I've seen this before, but can't quite recall the crazy thing you
are doing that none of us here would ever think of.
Something like, you aren't exporting or publishing from the
file menu – instead you are doing some export directly from
the library?
That was the problem! I was exporting the swfs directly from
the library. For some reason when you export a movie directly from
the library and then load it into another clip a generic instance
name is created on top of the clip you are loading it into. When
you publish a clip normally and load it into another clip, it
retains the instance name. Problem solved, thanks!

Subclips sorting/naming problem

when i split a long captured clip into subclips with the dv-start-stop thingie, i get a bunch of subclips that are named something like
"subclip 1, subclip 2, subclip 3" etc.
problem is, when i open the browser, the sorting does something like
subclip 1
subclip 11
subclip 12
subclip 19
subclip 2
subclip 20
subclip 21
which is really quite confusing.
is there a way to fix this, or change it to include leading 0s when naming subclips?
thanks

okay, thanks for the CatDV tip, i'll look into it later tonight. first glance looks promising, though.
second, i have 30 hours of tapes to capture, and the dvcam deck is a rental.
third, logging and THEN capturing from tape is tedious.
so, i got am extra hard drive (i'm almost at the terrabyte barrier , and load everything at once.
THEN i do scene detection, and end up with about 300 scenes per tape.
now to weed out the stuff i don't want, i'll go through the browser items one at a time. and it's here that this weird sorting gives me headaches, since i'm looking at the tape, i know the sequence of events as they took place, i klick around and then i jump ahead an hour, then back again.
if i can't add a 0, why can't i tell FCP to go by numbers and interpret numbers as such.
anyways ... i guess there's not really a solution except for third party software like CatDV.
thanks for your replies, guys.

Naming clips or subclips

I have looked extensively through both the manuals and the posts but still need to get something clear in my mind.
I have been editing on other systems for many years. I tend to do a lot of my cutting and making clips on the timeline - it may not be text book but it works very well for me and the type of material I am working on. I want to put some of those clips back into bins in the browser and I want to rename them so that later in the edit I can reference them. This has never been a problem with other systems but I find that I cannot do this in FCP as it renames the whole clip.
I understand that I could work in the viewer and do this by creating a subclip or I could use markers but I really would like to carry on as I have in the past as I have developed a very fast and efficient editing workflow using this method.
I wonder if I have misunderstood the system.
I could make independent clips in the timeline or make a master clip in the browser and rename these but am not sure what the ramifications of doing this would be for the project further down the line.
Thank you for any help
Peter Snowdon

Thank you. That is very encouraging.
I now have the option of making them independent clips in the timeline or copying them to the browser and making them into master clips.
Would you know what the difference is?
I really have tried to understand all this master clip, affiliate clip, independent clip stuff but it just doesn't sink in.
However I have found that once I have done this I can re-name my clips independently without changing the name of every clip linked ot it.
Peter

Can't add markers to SOME subclips but can add them to others

Hi. First time poster, I hope I'm not accidentally posting this in the wrong section. I have scoured the discussions for this problem or I wouldn't dry your eyeballs with this.
Suddenly, right in the middle of editing, I can no longer ADD markers to some specific clips in my bin. It is the oddest thing. In anticipation of questions, I'll give every detail I can conjure, I hope I'm not being too verbose but it's a very puzzling situation.
- The "problem" subclips, to which I can suddenly no longer add markers, at one point had completely normal marker functionality. There's pre-existing markers on these clips that are now no longer editable (with the M or ` key), and every marker menu item under mark -> markers is greyed out, EXCEPT for "add" and "delete all..." neither of which work on the problem clips anyway. These are all functions that work as usual on the non-problem clips.
- Within the problem subclips, I can still navigate to the next and previous markers, with shortcut keys and menu commands. But when I hit M on a marker in a problem clip, nothing happens. And when I hit M in a "blank" space in a problem clip, again, nothing happens, i.e., no marker is added. Nor do the menu commands pertaining to markers function.
- the clips in question are subclips, but so are the clips that have absolutely no problem with marker functionality.
- the clips not having this problem, which outnumber those that do, are not only in the same format, same media, same compression, from the same tape, captured in the same session and on the same drive but are even from the same "master clip" as their problematic siblings.
- the master clip in question has normal marker functionality.
- brand new subclips from that master clip have normal marker functionality, even if their in and out points are identical to the problem subclips...but then again, that's not surprising, since the old ones had "normal births," too.
- if I copy and paste the problem subclips in the bin, the copies have the same problem.
- if I "duplicate as new master clip" the problem subclips in the bin, the duplicates have the same problem.
- I can still edit the markers on the problem clips by right-clicking the drop-down list of markers IN THE BIN and selecting "edit." I can also delete them there by selecting them in the bin and hitting the delete key.
- doing so does not enable me to add more markers. Which reminds me:
- I am not doing something weird with markers - even if there was a quota on markers, I imagine I'm nowhere near it. it just seems like I'm the "crazy marker guy" because you're reading six pages of me talking about markers. I'm not the crazy marker guy. I'm an ordinary man with a crazy marker problem. I use markers the way you do. I mark the beginnings of takes and noteworthy reactions, etc....there's maybe an average of 15 note markers in each subclip, but plenty of "functioning" subclips from the same master clip have more markers than the problem ones.
- yeah, I quit and restarted FCP. And my computer. Yeah, my "M" key works (look how many times I've used it), My mouse is plugged in, I combed my hair, my software's not stolen, I purged my render files and, believe it or not, I only had one coffee this morning.
- I haven't been working with FCP so long that I can say I have or haven't had this problem with non subclips. I've only done a couple projects with FCP so far...this one is not unusual in comparison, but this is definitely the first problem I've ever had with FCP.
- If you have read this far, you are hero not just to me, but to all of humanity.
- if you have the solution, you are a God or I am an idiot, I am praying for either to be the case and I'm not picky. Seriously, thanks in advance to anyone that wastes their brain on this.

Figure I may as well update this thread with the different things I try. I know this makes for compelling reading and I don't want to deny you the story.
- I deleted the Final Cut plist file from the preferences folder, which not only had no impact on the problem, but no apparent impact on Final Cut, which is weird, but, one riddle at a time.
- I went through my autosave vault on the scratch disk, which deepened the confusion for me: each of the three problem-clips had a specific time before and after they became frozen to marker activity. I loaded the autosaved project from 11 am, for instance, and apparently, at that time, the most recent clip to become marker-locked was still working fine, but the other two weren't. A few hours earlier than that, only one of them had the problem, and at about 6:30 this morning, the problem didn't exist.
An important thing to note is that the order in which these clips became marker-locked follows the order in which I went through them, marked their takes and moved on.
I didn't notice the problem with any of them until much later - when a creative shift prompted me to add some new marks, at which point I realized that for three of my clips, I couldn't.
So, if this problem is being triggered by me, it's happening not during actual marking (I would have noticed), but during the things I do with marked clips, namely shuttling through them with the JKL keys, jumping to each of the markers, setting in and out points and inserting them into the timeline.
Is there some key it's possible for a less than attentive, sleep deprived, FCP newbie to hit, during that activity, that "locks" the current clip to the addition and adjustment of markers? As sensitive as my ego is, I really want this to be my fault so I can learn the problem and avoid it forever. I don't want to think there's some supernatural time bomb glitch in the one copy of FCP I bought that causes random clips to slowly dry like cement after which they can never be marked again.

SUBCLIP CREATES OUT OF SYNC AUDIO AND VIDEO

I have a problem which I hope someone out there can help me solve. I just recently upgraded to FCP 6.0.4.
In attempting to create a subclip, I follow these steps: set in and out points for the clip on the timeline, select the video and audio, link the clip's video and audio, double click the clip from timeline to bring subclip into browser, make subclip (modify > make subclip).
After naming the subclip, I double click on it to bring it into the browser for viewing. Here's where the problem comes in.
The duration of the subclip is always much too long. I noticed that the subclip's in point is always incorrect. It is always the starting timecode of the audio from the timeline (e.g. 00:01:05:00). The ending timecode is always correct though (i.e. the out point).
The subclip plays the audio at the beginning of the clip, but the video is blacked out until the very end of the subclip, at which time the audio is silent as it has already played out.
Does anyone know why I'm getting these bizarre subclips and what I need to do to correct this problem?
Your help is much appreciated.

In what app?
Have you restarted or reset the device?

Link to Subclips!

I really have to get back to the client if this can be done! If not they are going to take it to Final Cut, and use Glue Tools!
PLEASE HELP!
I'm sub-titling a movie and I made every sub-title into a 1 frame subclip.
It worked great. I moved the project and media to another computer and all my reels linked and the only problem I have is that none of the subclips will link.
The reel(s) that the subclips came from linked, but the subclips will not.
When I made the subclips I named them Sub1, Sub2 etc. . .
I have hundreds of sub-titles and I really do not want to remake them.
Is there a way to link my subclips?
Thanks

OK, interesting--this is why I don't like subclips in Premiere and usually avoid them.
I just did a quick test, subclipping a master clip a couple times, and dropping the subclips into a sequence. Then, I took the master clip offline. Lo and behold, the subclips stayed online--that's not what I was expecting. I expected that taking the master clip offline would cause any subclips created from it to follow suit; the reverse would also be true when putting the master clip back online. Weird. Apparently, subclips ARE independent references, which doesn't seem to be standard practice in other NLEs (at least Avid, where I did use subclips because the actually worked well).
So, try this: select all of your offline subclips in the bin, right-click, and select Link Media. Navigate and select the first media file that Premiere asks for (you can use the "Display Only Exact Name Matches" checkbox if it helps) and hit Select; so long as the remaining media files are in the same relative path, Premiere should automatically relink the rest of them. Because the subclips are based off of the original master clip/media file's timecode, all of the subclips should come back online in their correct time frames.
Does that fix it?
(For what it's worth, I wouldn't call this a bug, but it's definitely not right. IMO, subclips should be beholden to the master clips that they are generated from, and not independent entities. Again, this is why I don't like subclipping in Premiere. Time for a feature request...)

New Files from Subclips problem

I captured the first 15 minutes of a tape and made 7 subclips for various scenes and sections.
Now I want to create new media files from those subclips.
I have selected the subclips and opened Media Manager. The subclips do not use all of the original file and I can see that the 'Modified' size is smaller than the 'Original' size.
I have tried numerous settings (I followed the manual for the first few attempts), but have yet to yield multiple new media files. I have had it dupicate the selected clips into a new project, but that just gives me the same subclips referencing a new slightly smaller media file named for the first clip of the group.
What do I need to do to create new media files for each subclip?
I am using FCP7. It has been a while, but I remember doing this without a problem in FCP6. Is there a bug in FCP7? Am I forgetting a special setting?

Looks like I found the issue. All of the clips had continuous time code, so FCP grouped them into a single clip. After setting In & Out points to give a little space between each subclip it worked.
If Apple considers the grouping of the clips to be helpful, they are way off the mark as far as I am concerned.

Master comments not coming through into Subclips....

Good day to you all,
Still fairly new to FCP but can't for the life of me work out what I'm doing wrong here:
Basically, I'm taking entire tapes into the viewer and marking them - using the extend mark (option <) to mark the length of each clip - while giving them a name. I'm also, in most cases, adding a log note on the marking box, which appears in the 'Master Comment 1' section of the browser for each marker within the tape. After I have gone through an entire tape (I have about 24 hours of material to work through, so I need to sort this out quickly!) I select all the markers in the browser and hit Cmd. U to make them into subclips.
So from this point, I have two questions:
Firstly, is there any way of overriding the annoying way FCP names the subclips? For example, I name a subclip "Concrete Sculpture 1 - pan right", and it comes out as "Concrete Sculpture 1 - pan right from 'A1 Tape 04 Copy' Subclip". So I end up with about a hundred clips that I have to manually just go down and delete this extraneous nonsense which just serves to clutter up the legibility of the clip. I know this information, the image tells me its a subclip and I can see what tape it was from further along in the browser. There must be a way to override this annoying naming thing?
Second, none of the stuff in the 'Master Comment 1' column comes through into the subclips! So I'm left with a load of clips which don't, in many cases, have the most important bit of description for identifying them, and which I have painstakingly entered! What's going on here?!?!?!
Just when I thought I was starting to understand FCP, these two little niggles pop up.
Any ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance,
Warm regards,
Steve
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I don't mind subclips, and like many people I am forced by other factors to use them. So I do better if I pretend to actually like 'em.
Jim, I don't understand what's different about logging with subclips and logging off tape. It's not like us subclippers don't log just as much as anyone else. Subclipping is a sub-maneuver of a particular subset of logging systems.
But the naming thing is really ridiculous. We should be able to go through a clip, click one button, and have it chopped into two files right there with a user-definable numerical naming scheme. And so on at the next cut point. Geezer talk: "my old NLE could do that, and that was 10 years ago...". It's true, and that was a DraCo.
Steve, I do it differently based on circumstances. Sometimes I mark and then subclip, but that's when the naming can get really really tedious.
Here's what I'm most comfortable with:
- load the SuperClip in the viewer
- name it something short and relevant
- Control-C copy that base name
- I and O to set in and out for first shot. I set for maximum possible use of either video or audio.
- Command-U makes a subclip and selects the subclip's new name for replacement
- right arrow to move to end of base name
- type whatever you need to differentiate that subclip.
There are many variations, but when I get in the groove this is very fast. And it completely bypasses the Ridiculous Name Syndrome, 'cause you change it as soon as it pops up.
I am one of those people who puts all the search terms or codes in clip names. For long form doc work. This makes a good flow for me, most of the time.
I know there are better ways lurking out there, so I'm watching this space.

DVD Start/Stop and Subclips

Question: In my browser I have double clicked a clip, it opens in the viewer, I then go to >View>DVD start/stop and the markers are inserted. Once I go back to the browser and highlight the markers and go to Modify>make subclips, FCP will only convert about 27 or 28 of the markers to subclips, when there is actually over 100 markers. Is there a maxium limit on the number of markers that can be converted or that will appear in the browser list? Hope I am clear.
G5-1.8GHz-2GB DDR SDRAM- 250 ATA HD just upgraded to FCP 5.1
Thanks,
Mary
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've done it both ways, not sure which is easier.
HDV capture creates individual clips (individual media files) based on the detected start/stop and uses a name you specify at the initiation of the capture appending a sequence number to the end of the name for each new clip. S/S detect always uses the name "Segment". Like the Segment clips, HDV clips are in natural order, as you say. I'm guessing that the file system is smart enough to consider the entire number at the end of a name, but sorts character by charcter if the number is in the middle of the name.
Just seems a little short sighted to use different naming conventions for essentially the same function, especially when it causes the files to be out of order.

CREATING SUBCLIPS - WITH SOUNDTRACK PROBLEMS

Hello I am creating a series of sub-clips on one of my editing projects, so far the process is really smooth, but with one interview clip that is probably 6 minutes long and that i want to break up on some more specific multi-clips I had a problem with the associated soundtrack, every time that I found some portion of the interview that I wan to isolate I go and mark my IN and OUT points them I go to Modify and Create Sub-clip, everything works just fine, but when I load the new sub-clip on the Viewer and I play it the sound goes perfectly the firs 5 seconds or so, but right that moment the sync is cut off and the sound track stars from the very beginning of the whole master clip.
Does anybody have an idea why this happens and how can you get around and fix it, cause it seems pretty random since the other two interviews that I had upload into FCP work just fine when I have made sub-clips out them.
Thanks
Message was edited by: kuthul

Hi,
I came across the same problem today. I tried creating the subclip again but this time without special characters (except a period) in my title for naming the subclip and it seems to be working fine.
When I was naming the document i was using something like,
1. How DId Global Ethics Come About?
I got an issue with this, so I dropped the use of the special character (?) and it solved my problem. I'm not sure if this will work for you but I thought I'd stick it up.
Best wishes.

Segments Or Subclips ?

After I had replied to a question from Steve Kir I started to experiment with Segments and Subclips.
Until now I have usually split my clips into Subclips so that every scene is separated.
The only problem with Subclips is the dodgy numbering/ordering system.
However, I have just found that Segments can be used the same as Subclips and they are numbered consecutively from 1 to 100 or any amount.
Furthermore, just keeping them as Segments means one less process to go through.
Are there any disadvantages to using Segments in this way? There must be otherwise Subclips would be totally superfluous?
Ian.

Could you explain exactly what you're doing Ian? Segments are just marker sections in a clip. They don't exist in any way outside of the clip. If you drag a segment, that is drag the marker out of the clip, the segment becomes a subclip. If you drag the segment onto the top level of the project or into a new bin it's named Segment 1 from 'ClipName' and is a subclip. It follows FCE's conventional alphanumeric ordering segment 1 followed by segment 10, 11, and so on.
If you drag the segment directly from the clip into a sequence, you're making a subclip. It will work fine, but it does have a couple of downsides. The subclip that's in the sequence is an independent subclip. It has no master clip in the browser. This can, on longer projects, slow down sequence load times. It also means you lose the reveal in browser functionality. If you have the playhead over a clip in the sequence and press Shift-F it will show you where the master clip is even if it's buried deep in bins. This won't work, because there is no master clip in the browser. The match frame (F) function will work however.

Editing long clips into short clips and naming them differently

I've got a long clip that I'm trying to break up into lots of shorter clips and give different names to. So I loaded the clip into the timeline, press Control-V where I want to cut, and then drag that clip back into the Browser. But every time I drag a new one to the Browser and rename it, the names of the other clips change to be the same as the just-named clip.
What am I doing wrong? What's the easiest way to do what I'm trying to do?
TIA
G5 Quad @ 2.5gHz - 4.5g RAM Mac OS X (10.3.7)

RE: timecode when capturing.
Timecode is always captured (DV in this case) as long as you do not use 'non-controllable device' as the capture protocol. When you use 'non-controllable device' no timecode is delivered even if it did exist on the tape.
Put another way, if there is TC on the tape, Capture Now will bring it in as long as you have 'Firewire' or 'Firewire Basic' (whichever is appropriate for your capture device) selected.
There is one other way to capture full tapes and still get individual editable clips (and I HATE subclips ...). Squarebox makes a simple app called Live Capture Plus that will capture a complete tape in one pass then break the resulting large file into individual clips based on start/stop detection. It works quite handily and will allow you save your drive mechanism if you are using your camera as a deck (and Canons are not known for robust tape subsystems). If you combine LCP with CatDV you have a robust cataloging system as well.
Good luck.
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Batch for renaming subclips

Is there an easy way to rename subclips in a batch?
The automatic way of renaming by FCP is complex,
too many characters. I want to rename them, while
numbers are increasing automatically. Thanks PR.

Sorry, but no, you can't. AFIAK. The subclips will have the name of the original clip, then SUBCLIP. And yeah, that is a pain and is REALLY stupid. What I like doing is going thru the master clips, adding markers and naming the markers, then I turn all the markers into subclips, and the subclips retain the marker name. THAT is slick.
Shane

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