• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Batch adding reel names to quicktime files?

  Posted by Rodrigo Silvestri on August 20, 2010 at 7:20 pm

  Is there any tool that lets you add reel names in a batch? I need to export an EDL with reel names and don’t want to do it manually…

  Thanks,
  Rodrigo.

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  Bryan Lemos replied 13 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Dave Johnson

  August 20, 2010 at 7:34 pm

  If you’re talking about just file names, rather than meta data or something else, I use a tiny program called Better File Rename … if I recall correctly, its fairly cheap, but not free. I’m sure there are similar free tools out there though.
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  Mike Kahn

  August 20, 2010 at 8:06 pm

  If you open FCP and import the qt’s, you can rename the reels in the browser. If you scroll to the reel column and change the first clip to the correct name, you can then highlight all the others you wish to change and right click. Right clicking will bring up a list of all your reel names of all the highlighted clips. Select the reel name you want and you get a box saying this changes the metadata and select OK.
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  Rodrigo Silvestri

  August 20, 2010 at 8:20 pm

  Thanks Mike, I didn’t remember of that way.

  Anyway, I found QTchange, a little app for batch modifying QT metadata, adding TC, etc.

  ^^
  Rodrigo.

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  Anders Yarbrough

  September 13, 2011 at 10:15 pm

  Thanks Rodrigo! Been looking for this solution to batch rename reels recorded with a nanoFlash. What a pain in the As*!

  -Anders Yarbrough
  DIT / Post Workflow Guy
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  Bryan Lemos

  January 3, 2013 at 4:58 am

  Found this post two years later. Thanks for this. The right click and change reel name…thats the trick for me.

  Thanks!

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