• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  modifying reel name?? urgent

  Posted by Zeliha Bozkurt on July 11, 2006 at 1:52 pm

  Hi

  I have a project that is about to go to an online suite.

  I have made a mistake of exceeding 8 character limit on the reel name.
  Therefore the reel numbers do not appear on the Edl. This will make it hell to trying to conform for the online.

  Basically I want to modify the reel name in my project so that it only has the number on. Does doing this mess things up in my project??

  Thank you

  Zee.

  Zeliha Bozkurt replied 19 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Matt Gorney

  July 11, 2006 at 2:22 pm

  If I ever have any errors or major problems with my project concerning
  things like reel names, etc. I select the files and right click them
  and choose (export>batch list) in a tabbed text file and then open it in excel.

  (Open in excel as a tab delimited file with general column format.)

  Then I can change things there and save it as a tab delimited .txt file, and then import
  that as a batch list into FCP and reconnect the media.

  Sometimes it gives me an error message, but it still seems to work anyway.

  When you reconnect, point the files to the name of the original and it should
  reconnect and update the timeline as well. Then I would export the edl.

  The down side is that it may be a bit time consuming if you have to reconnect each file.

  Does this help?

  -Matt
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  Zeliha Bozkurt

  July 11, 2006 at 3:43 pm

  Hi Matt

  Thank you for the reply.

  Never done this before but I might give it a try.

  So you are saying that modifying reel names will make things go offline?

  Cheers

  Zee
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  Jeremy Garchow

  July 11, 2006 at 4:10 pm

  You can modify the reel names in the bin without any penalties except renaming them. You will get a warning that changing the reel names will modify the corresponding quicktime file, but that’s what you want. it should not make your files go offline. Reexport your EDL and see what happens then.

  The excel way is not a bad method either.

  Jeremy
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  Ron James

  July 11, 2006 at 5:41 pm

  That’s right. I do this all the time. When dealing with well over a hundred hours of material, a lot of it in free-run, I sometimes need to edit reel numbers so things will be clear in an online. Simply change the reel number for one of the clips in the browser, then highlight the rest that need the same number and right/control-click in the reel column, select the number and the rest of them will update.
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  Zeliha Bozkurt

  July 11, 2006 at 7:09 pm

  Thank you all!

  Zee 🙂

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