Right now, I use a Keybaord Maestro script to, after prepping a timeline, make x # of subclips based on a count from the Info panel that I manually glance at. I queue the script, and it moves one-by-one through the clips and makes subclips based on a keyword that I define. It uses the keyword as a variable and then adds a -001, -002, etc counter, then shuffles the dialogue box away and goes to the next clip.
I feel like this could be done more elegantly via Excalibur — select all clips, fire up Ex. and choose "Make subclips" in the ideal world it asks me for a name, but if not all good. I feel like it'd be faster than having a script do it one clip at a time.
I use subclips for b-roll so I can view all the shots at once in a project bin (instead of in an iso timeline to make "elevation stringers", which I find is much slower than simply looking at a page full of clips. With an nvme.2 raid, the thumbnails load fast enough to use reliably, and hoverscrub + i/o points works well. I've been preferring this to the "pancake timeline" method I used to employ, simply because I can see everything at once.
Thoughts?
