Mon Aug 08, 2016 8:45 am
Hi again,
I realize there are many exhaustive options in the Project Settings for defining the way clips in the Bin will be put on the Timeline; professionals working on their serious projects usually use them together with their Resolve-supported metadata, clip or reel naming convention, etc. But...
...I'm editing alone and with just my own final delivery in mind, with just a single camera/codec-originated footage, so being lazy like most people, I'd like to avoid the tedious work of re-organizing bins, reels, and clip names while still having Resolve create my timelines with the clips conformed at least with the right order (and that usually is the incremented suffix in the subsequent clips' names, as written by my Sony FS7 camera)...Like in the "184_001, 184_002,..." sequence of clips in my project's media bin. Simple, isn't it?
But frankly - whatever I define in the Conform options of my Project settings, my timelines never follow this simple convention. I realize there is much more involved than the clip file names (or are they really treated like reel names by Resolve?) - the TC being probably the most important factor - but I don't seem to be able to figure out how to make Resolve put my clips to a new timeline in the above described order. So my question is: what am I missing? What else - beside my clips' names - should I consider trying to define automatically conforming my clips in the way I described?
Piotr
PS. My clips are XAVC-I, and Resolve is not particularly good at getting all the FS7 metadata - even though I always copy entire card structures to my media storage drives...
I realize there are many exhaustive options in the Project Settings for defining the way clips in the Bin will be put on the Timeline; professionals working on their serious projects usually use them together with their Resolve-supported metadata, clip or reel naming convention, etc. But...
...I'm editing alone and with just my own final delivery in mind, with just a single camera/codec-originated footage, so being lazy like most people, I'd like to avoid the tedious work of re-organizing bins, reels, and clip names while still having Resolve create my timelines with the clips conformed at least with the right order (and that usually is the incremented suffix in the subsequent clips' names, as written by my Sony FS7 camera)...Like in the "184_001, 184_002,..." sequence of clips in my project's media bin. Simple, isn't it?
But frankly - whatever I define in the Conform options of my Project settings, my timelines never follow this simple convention. I realize there is much more involved than the clip file names (or are they really treated like reel names by Resolve?) - the TC being probably the most important factor - but I don't seem to be able to figure out how to make Resolve put my clips to a new timeline in the above described order. So my question is: what am I missing? What else - beside my clips' names - should I consider trying to define automatically conforming my clips in the way I described?
Piotr
PS. My clips are XAVC-I, and Resolve is not particularly good at getting all the FS7 metadata - even though I always copy entire card structures to my media storage drives...
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