More specific clip names
It'd be helpful if the names generated for clips were more specific/distinguishable.
Currently, all my audio clips share the same name - the name of the mic used to make the recordings. There is no way to distinguish them.
All the video clips share the name "Screen Recording m/d/y" which is not helpful when you're recording many clips in the same day - there is no way to distinguish them.
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Susan Buck said:
It'd be helpful if the names generated for clips were more specific/distinguishable.Currently, you can select the clip name and rename each clip after recording.
Developers would like to know how should the clips be named automatically to avoid confusion. -
You can rename the clips, yes, but that can be tedious.
To make the clip names unique, you could add the hour, minute, seconds
Before: "Screen Recording m/d/y "
After: "Screen Recording m/d/y h:m:s"
Or some auto-incrementing value:
"Screen Recording m/d/y 1"
"Screen Recording m/d/y 2"
"Screen Recording m/d/y 3"
Very similar to new files work in other programs. If I create one new file, it's called "Untitled"; if I create another one it's called "Untitled 1", then "Untitled 2", etc.
You're already doing something similar to the above with the underlying clip files. For example, I see file names like "Recording-2021-04-21-155336.scc" (Year, month, day, time)
It'd be super helpful if the clips in my media manager just matched those names.
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Susan Buck Thanks for adding those details Investigating feature request FLOW-10909
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Totally agree with a simple automatic system of Naming Clips & Associating them with Audio. See how Logic Pro X assigns automatically a name & number to each clip - it is not rocket science.
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Most screen recording applications already have an automatic naming system built-in. Including the native macOS screen recorder.
It would help to have this in ScreenFlow.
Here is how CleanShot X (a ScreenFlow competitor in many ways) does it:
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Alex Fazio Thanks. Showing this to the developers.
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