In our final “In Depth”, we talked concerning the nice “Set Bin Show” characteristic within Media Composer, and I stated that we might speak about bins within the subsequent few articles, and on this article, I’m going to speak about one other nice bin characteristic I take advantage of on a regular basis, and that’s Discover and Substitute.
WHERE WOULD YOU USE FIND AND REPLACE?
Media Composers energy over all different NLE’s is its media administration. However as Uncle Ben stated, “With nice energy comes nice duty”, and Media Composer takes that duty very severely relating to us loopy editors and our, not solely, duplication of clips, sequences and different components but additionally our consolidation and transcoding of media. Now, Media Composer has no concept what we plan on naming components down the road, so its approach of maintaining every little thing organized is by appending “tags” to the tip of components/names that it is aware of are both duplicates or “new” components. You’ll rapidly see that when consolidating or transcoding media by having it add “.new, .new.01, .new.01.01, and many others” to the tip of newly created media, or whenever you’re copy and pasting components like sequences within your bins. It does this in order that it may well maintain observe of what’s the unique media, and what’s the new piece of media it simply created. That’s nice for Media Composer group, not so nice for us, the editors. Properly, to maintain us organized, let’s bounce proper into Discover & Substitute!
You’ll instantly end up utilizing this characteristic after you transcode or consolidate media. Adjusting clip names one after the other isn’t a giant deal whenever you’re coping with one or two clips, however whenever you’re coping with lots of—and even 1000’s—this course of will prevent a ton of time.
Now, as I discussed earlier than, a typical frustration with transcoding is that Media Composer appends “.new.01” to clips. The identical problem occurs with sequences: duplicating a sequence ends in names like Untitled Sequence.02, .03, .closing, final_final.rev2, and many others. That is the place Discover and Substitute actually shines.
Right here’s learn how to use it. First, ensure that nothing is chosen within the bin so that you get the brief Quick Menu. If in case you have a clip chosen, the menu provides further choices from the Clip Menu, which will be complicated. Go to the Quick Menu and select Discover and Substitute. As an alternative of a brand new window, you’ll see a small sub-window on the high of the bin.
Let’s say we wish to take away “.Copy.01” from all clip names. Copy that precise textual content, paste it into Discover, and depart the Substitute discipline clean.
Hit Substitute All and immediately all these tags disappear. Should you solely wish to clear up a single clip, you should use Substitute as an alternative.
It’s also possible to change hyphens with areas in case you don’t like seeing dashes in your names. Simply kind “-” in Discover, kind an area in Substitute, and hit Substitute All. The result’s a a lot cleaner set of clip names.
Remember, this solely works with editable parameters. For instance, you may’t change the creation date or take away dashes from the Tracks column. However for clip and sequence names, it’s extraordinarily efficient.
So, after transcoding, as an alternative of manually renaming every little thing, use Discover and Substitute to take away tags like .new.01, .copy.01, or the rest you wish to streamline. It’s a incredible strategy to pace up group and maintain your workflow shifting effectively.
As I discussed in my final “In Depth”, we’ll be speaking loads about bins throughout the subsequent few articles as a result of they are surely the central hub of your workflow outdoors of the timeline. Figuring out learn how to handle them successfully will assist maintain your enhancing course of as clean and environment friendly as doable.
Should you’d like to take a look at extra of my “In-Depth’s” on Media Composer, yow will discover them right here:
Media Composer Mission Creation
Avid Attic
Alternating Left And Proper Audio
Keyboard Shortcuts
Set Bin Show
And you may obtain a 30 day trial of Media Composer at this hyperlink.
