Media Composer has some brand new ways that you can quickly look up information about your source material, clips and effects. By running reports on your metadata, you can easily find things as you edit, and prepare for finishing (online) or confirming sessions. These reports can be saved, searched or emailed. (This feature was introduced in Media Composer 3.0, but has received some user-interface enhancements in 3.0.5.)
These reports are:
- Source Clip Summary: lists all tape sources used in a timeline, and all graphics used in the timeline with their original paths
- Clip Summary: lists all clips in the sequence or subclip
- Effects Summary: lists all effects in a timeline, including a list of Plugins used
There are two ways to generate these reports: via the Console or via the Report Generator window.
Console
- To run an individual specific report on either source information, clip information or effects information, type one of the following commands into the console:
dumpsourcesummary
dumpclipsummary
dumpfxsummary
-dumpsourcesummary
-dumpclipsummary
-dumpfxsummary
- To run a complete default report (that contains source, clip and effect information), drop a clip, subclip or sequence into the Console window. The default report will contain all information from the above separate reports.
Report Generator Window
In Media Composer 3.0.5, these reports can now be run from the new Report Generator window. This can be accessed from two locations:
- From the Composer Window: Load an object (subclip, clip, sequence) into the Composer window and then right click on that wndow and choose "Get Info" to open the Report Generator window.
- From the Bin: right click on an object in the Bin and choose Get Info to open the Report Generator window
- Note: The Report Generator gives you several additional options,
such as using In/Out marks, showing specific types of effects,
showing offline sources only, etc.)
You can either send the report to an output file, or run it in the console, as above.