Re: [Traverso-devel] Resources Bin

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Remon wrote:
>>> Now we're at that, the naming of clips isn't that trival. Before the
>>> 'copy of' was added when a clip was splitted/copied.
>>> But after a few splits or copies, the name gets horribly long!
>>> What do you suggest ?
>> Just append a dash and a number "-1". And if there already is a number,
>> increment it by one until there's no other clip by that name.
> 
> Ah, sounds good!
> 
>>> Also, for newly recorded audioclips, what naming should be used ?
>> What about "recording-1" and then the same incremental of numbers...
>> And then, there have to be a "rename source" and "rename clip" command
>> so one can give them useful names.
> 
> Hmm, renaming a clip is indeed rather important to have working.
> For recorded clips, I think it makes sense to at least use the track number 
> as 
> well.
> when using the track number, it's pretty obvious it was a recording, not an 
> import, so naming recording-1, or recording-2 is a bit redundant.
> 
> What about, recording on Track 1 gives clip names:
> 
> track-1_take-1, second recording, track-1_take-2 and so on ?

Sure, that will be fine!

> I thought adding adding the song number would be usefull too, but maybe that 
> doesn't make that much sense.

No, since the resource bin should only show the clips/sources for the
current song (or the song selected in the little menu in the resources
bin window, i guess?)

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