Welcome back to MacBreak Studio. I'm Mark, I'm with with Steve. We're talking about- Actually, I
don't know we're talking about. Cuz Steve kind of left me in the dark. So what are we doing here?
Well stock footage. I use a lot of stock footage, well not a lot of it, but when
I do I need to find it. And you know, a lot of people when they do you use stock
they put it in their timeline, they use different stock libraries. And at the end
they need to replace it, because has a watermark. But you don't know where I came- You know
where it came from, but you don't know where on that site it came from,
if you didn't save it with the correct little 16 digit number. And a lot of times that's not
even correct. Yeah. So, I found this next trick is just fantastic. And it not only
works with stock footage, it works with stock audio as well. And you mentioned that somebody
told you about this. Right.
Anders Oderstrom from, I hope I pronounced it right, from Chicago. He gets all the credit
for this but it's a lot of fun.
Ok, let's take a look at it. You bet. One of my favorite stock sites of course i s Pond5.
It's the largest site out there, and this is this is a clip that I wanted a
preview for. Most of these sites allow you to download a preview, a watermarked-
in this case- big Pond5. It is very clear that came from. Some are a little less
or more subtle than that. But there you have it, so I'm going back to Final
Cut and show you that, I got this this time-lapse project. And say I was working
on this for a client. I'm my own client, but let's say this is, you know, something for network
for broadcast or what have you.
I just have a lot of stuff from San Francisco here, and I've got these Golden Gate
Bridge shots. But, I needed another Golden Gate Bridge shot, so I didnt want
to go out and shoot it. Really I'm not gonna fly my drone over the Golden Gate Bridge. I don't
even know the legality. Somebody did recently just a couple weeks ago, they posted some
beautiful footage. I don't know how they did it, but they flew a drone all over the bridge.
That can't be FAA- I don't know, but anyway it would be a big thing to go to do that,
and you can just go buy it. Alright, so here it is. I think it's a pretty awesome shot.
Bottom line is it's it's watermarked. And at some point, if I end up using this, I want to
know where it came from. Now, one clip not so much, but what if I've got, you
know, 20 or 30 clips, and they all came from different music libraries, Right? Or
different stock photo or video libraries? Exactly. So there's there's that cli, and
I'm gonna select it and press Command-C. Notice I just copied the URL Right. So now I'm gonna go
back to Final Cut Pro and open up the timeline index- Command-Shift-2.
And I'm parked right over the clip and so the timeline index knows that
that's the clip, right? Yeah. Now I'm going to double click in the notes field, and
you asked me why did I make this index so big? Well here's why. I can now paste
that URL right in the timeline index. OK. So it's not so much a matter of which
stock company this clip is from what is the specific URL for that that clip.
Because you know you came from Pond5, but you're like, I have no idea which one
and I didn't write down a long URL, or that other number to search by.
I didn't wanna- That's great. It's fantastic.
I have completely run into that issue of then trying to track down this specific clip
from whoever I was buying it from. Now all you need to do is control click, and just use
OpenURL right from the menu. Right there. And then you don't even need to copy and paste it.
That's excellent. So it's more metadata. It's more metadata. That's another metadata tip.
You can do with music too. It will only take 30 seconds to show, but if I go back into Final
Cut, and I have another timeline. I had this little commercial I was working on, and I
didn't know, you know, I could see I have the audition clip I don't know what music
that I wanted to use. This is typical I'll put a lot of music tracks. Yes.
into an audition container and then I'll play them back, and say which
one do I like. This is kind of more like upbeat, bouncy jazz. Then notice I havr
the URL already pasted in there for that. If I switch to that other
track I have, you notice the URL changes, because in the Timeline Index
it's two different clip. So I went from audio jungle which is one music library
and when I switch it, you'll notice its Premium Beat. So it just switches when you change
auditions that, particular line in the timeline index updates, it reflects- I
like Premium Beat, a lot lot of people ask us where we get music this is my chance to say here's one of
the places we get music. I know you use Premium Beat. They got some- You know they got
pretty big website. I've used them, I've used Envato, but I like Premium Beat and so now if
I go out to- again control click. Open the URL right to that piece of music. Mentioning
previews one of the things you would think, is when you download comps from
these websites, that the filename they give it, would allow you to trace back to the to
the file. But they often don't. The file names, often you rename them or they don't give
you a descriptive file name that allows you to find the darn thing. That's right. So this
is huge. I think it's fantastic. In fact there's probably more stuff that you can
probably do. Like that so you're doing some documentary, some info graphic and
you're using a graphic that's using Wikipedia as a source. You can like paste
the Wikipedia entry, the source. Who you want to credit. It could be used in a lot of different ways.
Beautiful. Steve, awesome tip, loved it. Super useful. I will use that immediately.
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