Give name or label to clips on a timeline?

Scott-Evans wrote on 4/6/2022, 10:00 PM

I'm working on editing down some personal interviews with Movie Studio 2022 Suite. I have specific segments of these interviews that I am trying to use, but as I trim these clips out, I am not finding a good way to give these clips specific unique labels so I can tell at a glance which clip is which, as there is no real difference visually from clip to clip. All I am seeing is the raw filename on the timeline for these clips, and that's not helpful when I'm pulling 10-15 video clips out of a full video. I can set project markers, but those are attached to the timeline and not a specific video clip. Exporting individual clips to a different physical file seems like a huge amount of work (and a reduction in video quality as I export to a file, then import it again, as each export/render would loose some quality of the original video source).

Suggests are welcome on how I might be able to label segments individually in a specific movie and be able to move them into other projects within the overall the movie while retaining their unique label/identifier.

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AAProds wrote on 4/6/2022, 11:17 PM

@Scott-Evans

We can do that! 🙂 Rightclick on the video object>Object Properties.

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Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

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Movie Studio 2025

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

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(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 Home Version 2009

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Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

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Scott-Evans wrote on 4/6/2022, 11:26 PM

Thanks @AAProds! That is exactly what I was looking to do.