Howard Roll wrote:Joe Shapiro wrote:It would actually be preferable to you for the camera to reuse numbers that had become available because the files had been removed? And you think that would be what most would prefer?
Within the context of a traditional workflow, absolutely.
I'm only going to use clip deletion to delete double taps, egregiously bad takes, or those moments where the AD calls camera then the director's 30 second last minute note turns into a 5 minute discussion. I understand the ask in the context of your outlier workflow, in my workflow I don't want missing clip numbers when I'm copying data, it would make me think that files weren't transferred.
Good Luck
So, in the scheme you'd prefer, this might happen:
shoot A and B:
A_001
Bmistake_002
B_003
oops... delete errant take Bmistake_002.
shoot C:
C_002
So now you have these takes:
A_001
B_003
C_002
I AGREE with you that it's not good practice to delete errant takes unless they're deleted immediately.
That said, I'd far prefer to see
A_001
B_003
C_004
than have take C, which was shot AFTER take B, have an earlier clip number.
If you say "just don't do that" then understand that I'm talking about a case where someone DOES do that and suggesting that the current behavior is less desirable in that case than the one I'm suggesting - and that I suspect most other cameras would not behave in this way.
PS What does "Good Luck" mean to you here? It sounds to me like a diss.