Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 189)

Chapter 14 Capturing Your Footage to Disk 189
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14 Select the checkboxes next to the fields you want to include in the name of the clip—
Description, Scene, Shot/Take, and Angle.
Automatic Filenaming During Capture
If you want, you can deselect the checkboxes next to the logging fields in the
Capture window. In this case, the Name field remains empty, so Final Cut Express
names your media file for you. Final Cut Express automatically names media files and
their corresponding clips using the following convention: Untitled, Untitled1,
Untitled2, and so on.
If you’re capturing a clip and the currently specified name is already taken by a clip in
the current Scratch Disk folder, the letter or number at the end of the name is
incremented. For example, if you capture a clip named Office Clips1 and there’s
already a clip in that project’s Scratch Disk folder with the same name, the name is
changed to Office Clips2. If there is already a media file called Office Clips A, the
current media file is called Office Clips B.
Alphabetical incrementing occurs if the last letter is preceded by a separating
character such as a space, underscore, or dash. For example, ClipName-A is
incremented to ClipName-B, but ClipNameA is incremented to ClipNameA1. If the last
letter in the clip name is preceded by a number, both the number and letter are
incremented. For example, ClipName-2Z is followed by ClipName-3A.
Use this feature cautiously, or you’ll end up with a scratch disk full of files named Untitled.
Fields that contribute to
the Name field
Select the checkboxes
for the fields that you
want to include in the
Name field.