Renaming Clips in Final Cut Pro 7

There are commands in FCP7 that give you freedom and control in renaming your clips. I've been working with a clip in my sequence that named tilt up to boat,

but the name of that clip was changed to match the footage action, after it was imported into the project. Let’s look at the file in my Finder window by selecting Reveal in Finder under the View Menu.

You will see that the original media file’s name is actually pond life.

In renaming clips, there are two commands to change the name of the project clip to match that of the file, so tilt up to boat would change back to pond life. Or you can change the media file name to match that of the project clip. To access the rename commands you can right-click (or control-click) on a clip and choose that option from the short cut menu. To make this project clip match its file name, let’s choose ‘clip to match file’. Or you can select the clip and Choose Modify > Rename.

Now let’s change the project clip name again, and this time lets change the file name to match this clip name. We Choose Modify > Rename, file to match clip. As a double check Final Cut will prompt you to be sure of the change, since you are changing the media file name and not just the project clip name.

Let’s take a look at that media file. Now the media file name is named after the project clip. These simple commands help you keep your project clips and media files efficiently organized either clip by clip or as part of an overall workflow process.

For example you might be working with several voice-over segments that were given generic names as you recorded them. You can now rename the clips you want to use in the project and then change the file names to match.

Now there is no confusion about what media files these clips link to and which generically name media files you might want to delete or simply not use in your project.

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