• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Scripting / Automating bulk clip renames

  Posted by Rob Mcdougall on January 25, 2011 at 5:27 pm

  Is there any way in FCP to batch rename clips etc. ?

  I used to help manage a render farm for a VFX company and we had a load of shake scripts for renaming, so if you wanted to change:

  Whatever_Here_001_v3.dpx

  to

  whatever_here_001_v3.dpx

  you’d input filename in, filename out with a $$$ over the sequence numbers.

  What I’d really like to be able to do is change:

  Some Random Mess Cam 003 – 010110
  and
  Some Other Random Mess 3 – 010110

  to

  My Actual Name Cam 003 – 010110

  so I need some sort of find / replace. I can’t see any way of getting scripting into FCP. Can I export XML and play with it in filemaker without breaking it?

  Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 26, 2011 at 1:06 pm

  Are you meaning clips inside of FCP? or the files that FCP is managing.
  If it’s the files outside of FCP, I love name mangler.

  If it’s the files inside – I’d have to think about that. Yes, there might be an XML way.

  Best,

  Jeff G

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  Rob Mcdougall

  January 26, 2011 at 1:34 pm

  I suppose what I’m really after is a better way of managing clip names in FCP. Is it possible to trawl through the XML and do Find + Replace without breaking it? That way I could then use Rename>File as Clip Name
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  Jeff Greenberg

  January 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm

  Dicey.

  The issue is that you’d want to change the internal name in FCP and leave the source alone. Tough; I’d test it with the XML and a decent text grep search/replace. Easier to do it at the finder level and reimport from scratch.

  Best,

  Jeff G

  Apple Master Trainer
  Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
  Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
  Compressor Essentials Lynda.com

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