Number clips automaticaly for identification?

[sealilly]

Hoping to get lucky here, is there anyway to automatically sequentially number clips as an overlay on timeline? This is what I was hoping to accomplish:

Filmed a clients son at a pitching session and have 80 total clips, one of each pitch. I would like to number them for him so he can choose which ones he would like on the final edited video.I do have a stopwatch timer video I sometimes use, but this one would be a lot easier if I simply had each clip numbered. Perhaps I need to just do this manually?

[BrianCee]

No automatic way to number them I'm afraid - if you have a stop watch and you can put up that would be quickest - just ask him what times the clips he wants start.

Otherwise your going to have to number each one individually by adding a title which is just a number on each clip

[sealilly]

Thanks Brian, was hoping for the miracle button

[sealilly]

I may be doing this often so I thought I would ask the regulars for their thoughts. I am doing some videos for college bound athletes and first one is a pitcher. I shot 30 minutes which consisted of about 60 pitches. I simply did a multi edit to eliminate all the stuff between pitches. I now have 60 clips. I need to render a video and upload so client can choose which pitches for the video. My first experiment was to add a timer video file but this had 2 problems, client still had trouble selecting the pitch using the timer and then if I removed a clip, this would alter the remaining clips in proportion with the timer. Then I thought I could manually add a text number to each clip, but this would have same issue each time I delete an unwanted clip.

Anyone have an ideal solution?I think I need a magic want to add numbers to the clips and have them stay throughout editing, but be able to make them vanish when editing is complete

[BrianCee]

If you had numbered each clip just using a text title number for each clip then surely when you deleted a clip you would also delete it's number and then ripple editing would ensure that all the rest of the clips would retain their same number.

[sealilly]

Thanks Brian, I always forget about that ripple button! Another issue solved.