subclip comments vanish

David Thiel wrote on 10/3/2008, 11:47 AM
This seems like a bug or a bad design decision
I captured DV clips that have as many as 19 takes in them (for some reason capture didn't see 'Pause' only 'Stop')
So, I created subclips and commented them.
Great.
I discovered to my dismay that capture had not put the clips where I want them (D: my clip drive). New system.
So I moved the .avi files that the subclips were based on.
When I reloaded the project I pointed the project at the relocated .avi files.
The result:
The timeline sees the files but in Project Media all the subclip comments are blank!
Not good. I have a couple hours invested in identifying and labeling these.

I can fix this by putting the clips back on the C: drive, but loosing the contents of the Comment field seems wrong.

ddt

Comments

xberk wrote on 10/3/2008, 8:25 PM
When you say you "commented" the subclips, do you mean you entered text into the Tape Name field in the properties dialogue of each subclip? Or is there some other way of "commenting" a subclip?

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David Thiel wrote on 10/4/2008, 9:24 AM
Yes, I have a big blob of media, I find a take, I make a subclip of it, I type a comment to characterize it.

Now, knowing that the field is not likely to hang around, I should put the identifying tags in the subclip name.

Still, it doesn't seem correct that the contents of the comment field is tied to basis clips location.
rmack350 wrote on 10/4/2008, 10:14 AM
I'm not sure that putting the name in the subclip is a good idea either. When I've copied bins full of subclips to new projects in the past Vegas would drop the clip names. Maybe that's ben fixed since then.

A method that actually works very well is to just mark regions in the trimmer and then use the Vegas Explorer to view the regions. It's very easy to work this way but a little frustrating that you have to use the Vegas explorer instead of the project media window.

Subclips seems like a feature that was added to get some users off of SCS's back. It wasn't implemented with any enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. But then, I haven't used it in V8 so maybe it's been cleaned up.

Rob Mack