FCPX & OSXx 10.10 bug

Teaching a class this week. FCPX 10.1.3 with OSX 10.10 bugs; Custom Renaming;
1- If you manually change the name of a clip, it will not change back to Original Camera name. 2- If you edit Custom Rename preset, the Custom Name with Counter, fill in a custom name, set counter to 3 digits, click OK, BANG, GUI goes wacko, FCPX crashes. All this done on a rMBP, nMP, and 4 iMacs. Embarrassing in a class...

Not seeing 1. I change the name of a clip to "ranch and hills." Use the Info inspector to change back to camera name and I get Clip #1.

Not getting 2 either on a rMBP with 10.10.

Wonder if there's something else you did prior to that to set off the naming problem.

Were these clean 10.10 installs or upgrades?

I can confirm issue #1. Renaming a clip, wether with a created Custom Name or just entering it in the Info > Name box, will not allow to change back to Original Camera Name. Tested with different clips in different formats.

I don't see issue #2. Applying a Custom Name with Counter, counter set to different numbers of digits, works OK

Tested both on clean installs and on a test system updated over Mavericks.

Overall FCP X seems quite stable for playing around with on Yosemite on a test machine. But there is no way on the world I will update our production system to Yosemite until FCP X has been properly updated for this OS. And even then I will thoroughly test it before even considering using it in production.

- Ronny

OK. What am I doing wrong?

www.fcpxbook.com/RenameClip.mov

Tom, do you have any clips that don't have date/time as their original camera name? If so, please test this on such a clip.

- Ronny

ronny courtens wrote: Tom, do you have any clips that don't have date/time as their original camera name? If so, please test this on such a clip.

- Ronny

I just tried it on a C300 clip that was auto-named with the clip name (AA6829) upon import (and not the date). Was able to use the Apply Custom Name - Original Name From Camera command and it worked as expected. The bug must be specific to a certain subset of camera type(s).

--- Oh wait. I just realized I'm not on 10.10 yet. So, if it's a 10.10 only thing, I'm of no help.

Like this?

www.fcpxbook.com/RenameClip2.mov

Scott,

Thank you for testing this.

Tom,

When you change the name of the clip "clip#1 12008-02-06 10:31:35" to "ranch" and then you select Apply Custom Name > Original Name from Camera, I see the name changes to "clip#1" and the rest of the original clip name is lost. Is that correct?

- Ronny

That's right. This is a recent import of AVCHD media, which uses the new FCP style of importing clips with the actual camera name Clip #1, etc. rather than date/time stamp, which it used in earlier versions.

P.S. I have other clips that have date/time stamp converted to ProRes that have come from an XF camera, and that reverts to the Canon naming convention like AA0053.

Okay, Tom. Thanks for clarifying.

- Ronny

I also found that the Match Frame function, while teaching class today, doesn't work as it used to. Hardly anything is done to the clip, or nothing is done to the clip.