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How to Overlay Your Clip Names in Adobe Premiere Pro

February 22, 2018 By Premiere Pro Tricks 5 Comments

UPDATE: Adobe has moved this effect to “Obsolete” which means someday it will disapear.

Have you ever wanted to overlay the name of each clip in your sequence timeline? I can’t say I have, but I know it could come in handy if someone ever wanted to see the filename of each clip you used in the edit.

Just add an Adjustment Layer on the video track above the clips in your timeline. Then find the “Clip Name” effect in your Effects list (Effects > Video Effects > Video > Clip Name) and drag it on to your Adjustment Layer.

Now head over to your “Effects Control Panel” and find your “Clip Name” Effect. Change the “Source Track” to the Video Source Layer with your clips on it. In my case, V1.

Now you can see each clip name overlayed above your video clip. Export that sucker and send it to your client for some really great micromanagement! Just kidding.

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  1. bilbo baggins says

    April 7, 2020 at 1:08 am

    This saved my life, thank you so much.

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  2. Michael says

    May 5, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    I am creating a slide show of our high school seniors. Each senior has a picture and the file name is their name. I wanted to use the clip name to just have their name show onto their picture. When I do this though it has their name.jpg is there a way to remove .jpg or do I have to go through each file and remove the .jpg

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  3. Mimi says

    August 17, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    This was so handy. Thanks for making and posting the details. I am surprised more people haven’t commented on it. But I had to do a lot searches with different words to find it. There are similar scripts in After Effects, but this is the only method I’ve seen for PPro. Thanks very much again!

    Reply
  4. Sun says

    December 2, 2020 at 3:26 am

    You’re so funny thank you so much!

    Reply
  5. fapka says

    March 27, 2021 at 2:30 pm

    Shame it does not work for names of audiofiles ;(
    It would be way easier to make e.g. DJ mixes this way…

    Damn it.

    Reply

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