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Renaming Clips Using Clip Names
The most fundamental piece of clip metadata is each clip’s name, which is used to identify clips nearly everywhere they appear inside DaVinci Resolve. By default, clips show the file name of the corresponding media file on disk. Since the dawn of tapeless recording, however, editors have been stuck with camera original media having names that are not exactly “human readable.”
NOTE: You can also edit the clip names of timelines, compound clips, and multicam clips, so that you can have two sets of naming conventions for these items, one for when you’re doing creative editing, and one for when you’re doing finishing tasks.
NOTE: You can also edit the clip names of timelines, compound clips, and multicam clips, so that you can have two sets of naming conventions for these items, one for when you’re doing creative editing, and one for when you’re doing finishing tasks.
NOTE: You can also edit the clip names of timelines, compound clips, and multicam clips, so that you can have two sets of naming conventions for these items, one for when you’re doing creative editing, and one for when you’re doing finishing tasks.
Fortunately, you have the option of entering a more user-friendly clip name to use instead, while preserving the original file name that’s critical for maintaining the link between a clip and its media, as well as for tracking an offline clip’s corresponding link to the online media from which it originated. There are a few ways you can edit the clip name of a clip.
— In the Media Pool’s Icon view, click a clip’s name once, pause a moment, then click a second time to select the name, type a new name, then press return to accept the name.
— In the Media Pool’s List view, the Clip Name mirrors the source clip’s file name (hidden by default), but you can click the Clip Name column for any clip to add a new name from scratch.
— With the Clip Name column exposed in the Media Pool’s List view, Option-click the Clip Name column for any clip to edit the file name, rather than entering a brand new name.
— To edit the clip name of multiple clips, select all of the clips for which you want to change the clip name, then right-click one of the selected clips and choose Clip Attributes. Open the Name panel of the Clip Attributes window, edit the Clip Name field, and click OK.
After you’ve changed a clip’s clip name, that clip appears in the following places using the clip name instead of the original file name:
— The Media Pool’s Thumbnail view
— The name bar of each clip in the Timeline
— The Source Viewer title bar
— The Clip Name field of the Clip Attributes dialog’s Name panel