Don't you hate it when you look at your timeline you see a string of numbers that look more like
some password a hacker would use instead of any sort of useful clip name that relates back to your
script me too but i also hate manually changing the names of all them because it takes so long
so that's why today i want to show you how you can automatically rename your clip's display name
based on the metadata found on the media page of davinci resolve 17.
the way we're going to automatically rename the clips is by using the metadata that we have set up
it was either shot in camera or if it wasn't in this case i'm going to show you how to do that
here in the media page go to the metadata tab and then over here there's a little drop down that'll
see more info we're going to choose shot and scene this is everything in here you
could use to rename your clips all i'm really concerned with and care about our scene and take
and maybe a keyword so we're gonna make sure our scene and take are available in our list view over
here as well just right click you can choose scene and take and then drag them so that you can work
with them quickly and then i'm gonna group all of scene one together so that i only have to do
that change one time you'll see what i'm talking about so i'm gonna tap through or use my up and
down arrows on these clips to find out when i get out of scene one but just by looking at the
slate up there we go to one a so what i'm doing is select that one and i'll shift select the top one
i can go over here to scene use this little check box type in one hit save and just like that we've
applied scene one metadata to all those clips i'll do that with the next scene here which is 1a
and just using the down arrow i can quickly go through all of them
and like that we have chosen all of them we can choose scene scene 1 a hit save and all those
have scene numbers now the quickest way to do take i found is actually to do it over here in
this list view and not in the metadata section over here and what we're going to do by that is
you just click into it and once you do that it's highlighted it's blinking you can type one and
then to get to the other fields quickly you hit the tab on the keyboard so hit tab two times and
that gets us over there so hit two tab two times three four and i'll just keep going real quick
and that's it so now you can see we have seen and take metadata associated with
all these you can also apply keywords really quickly which is really cool
there's default keywords that are in here and you can also set up your own so there's a thing called
the keyword dictionary if you go up to a workspace and then go all the way down here to keyword
dictionary and check on that you can create your own keywords in here based off of whatever
is pertinent information so it could be an actor's name or something but there's a lot in here that
they've given you for free and so we're just going to use one of those we're going to use
exterior because this is an exterior shot and you would add them just by clicking add but we don't
need to do that because we have ext we're going to choose all the clips over here and add the keyword
ex t and then just select this and now hit save now all those have three pieces
of metadata they have scene take and keyword now let's go rename them this is the fun part
you have them all selected here you right click you say clip attributes then you can go to name
check this box right here and we're going to get rid of that name and what we're going to
do is add variables this is really fun so we're going to do scene take and keyword so to get
the variables you hit the percentage key on the keyboard and then just start typing the variable
you want so i want the scene one and then as soon as it starts to populate if you just click on it
then you'll get uh the scene that's associated with that clip as the clip name you'll see what
i'm talking about once we finish this now i'm gonna do an underscore so we have a
little separation we'll do a percentage again that gets us our variables we'll do take and
then we'll choose take and then one more we'll do underscore and we'll do percentage keyword okay
and it's actually called keywords plural i guess and now that all that stuff is set
up we can hit okay and just like that i don't know if you just saw all those clips that were
sort of cryptic sort of went away and we have everything that's rated by our scene our take
and our keyword so why this is so cool is we have useful information about the shot without me even
having to open it or look at the thumbnail so the beauty of renaming those clips there with
those variables is it's automatically going to be switching them for you if you need to
update or change something and then if you go to the timeline in the edit page they show up right
there on the timeline as you're working so this is one underscore one and you keep going through
you can quickly see that you don't even need to have like the thumbnails turned on for the clip
to be able to see what the clip's about you could you could save that ram if you needed
to and just sort of disable that real quick time out here i want to welcome you here i'm chadwick
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with that out of the way i also want to show you that you can also still see your old clip
file names when necessary like maybe if you're conforming a final show so let's check that out
so if you're conforming a show you might actually need to see that original metadata and that's
really easy to access still without having to go turn those clip names off all you need to do
is go up to view and then down at the bottom there is an option called show file names okay
so under view show file names this will then show what the original file name on
your hard disk is actually referring to so just because we changed the clip
name over here in the media poll page that did not change the file that's on the disk
so like for instance i can prove that if i right click and i say reveal in finder
this is actually going to point to a clip that is img0080 i think this was like from a 5d or
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