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Naming your sequences or outputs

Naming your sequences or outputs

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Naming your sequences or outputs

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- In a previous lesson, I demonstrated my own personal system for organizing my media bins and folders. In this lesson, I want to show you my system for naming my sequences, as well as how those sequence names corresponds to my outputs, so I can always track any version of any cut and never have any notes or ideas get lost in the shuffle. It's easy to keep all of your sequences named untitled.01 or untitled.02. But when you are in a hectic and fast paced environment, your sequence naming can be the difference between making or missing a tight deadline. So here are my own basic naming conventions for sequences and outputs. We're here in the main layout of Avid right now and I'm just going to open up a cuts bin. And you're going to think, "Oh this just looks crazy." But trust me, I've seen cuts bins that look like this, with names that are Untitled Sequence "01-v03-rev-lkd-rev2lkd2.copy1" I've actually seen bins…

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