Batch Renaming Clips on Import not recognized by Adobe Bridge

[Ann Bens]

You do not want to rename the clips ones they are in Premiere.
If ever your footage goes off line you will have a hell of a time relinking.
You will have to do that by hand for each clip and you have to know which original clip to link to.
Nearly impossible.

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[Joe Chow]

Then why is there a “Rename” option in the application? So my options are pretty limited. I guess, whenever possible, I should have the footage transcoded prior to ingest.

[Ann Bens]

You can rename anything you want, just warning you what can happen.
A few clips renamed, that’s OK, if several hundreds of clips are renamed……

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[Joe Chow]

I agree that it’s not advisable renaming anything after it’s imported into Premiere. And if I were to choose the lesser of evils, I would certainly prefer the ability to Batch Rename prior to import because as you say I will be able to relink from the footage folder at some later date. The only misgiving I have is the loss of original timecode, but since I can put time-of-day info into the new filename, it’s an acceptable loss.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joe Chow] “I agree that it’s not advisable renaming anything after it’s imported into Premiere. “

Sorry guys. I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade here, but I find this to not be true.

If something goes offline has been renamed in Premiere (select the clip, hit enter, rename, or use the rename command) and I ask Premiere to relink, it asks for the original file name (which hasn’t changed on the hard drive).

You of course would have to know which “reel” it came from, but I find that this works and will connect if you point it in the right direction. I guess the lesson here is to add a reel name to the AVCHD files, which should correspond to a folder on your hard drive.

Jeremy

[Joe Chow]

I think it’s a matter of workflow preference. I don’t like to have a unique “reel” name that is 5 folder levels away from the hundreds of non-uniquely named clip files (00001.MTS, 00002.MTS, so on) I want to access or relink. I do prefer Batch Renaming at the file level with unique filenames (custome name + yyyymmddhhmmss) even if it means loss of timecode info. This is especially true when I’m confronted with hundreds of clips that I have to rename individually in Premiere.

[Jeremy Garchow]

I hear you, and whatever works for you. I figured I’d offer a solution that allows renaming and relinking that doesn’t destroy the original camera data, and keeps tc in tact. (TC is important to us, but maybe that’s just how we work).

If you will never need these files to be available on another system other than Premiere, and you don’t mind losing tc, you can rename them in the finder/windows explorer/Bridge. It’s personally not the way I work as I like the files to remain compliant to other systems.

Or you can simply add the reel name to the “Tape Information” label in the metadata section, all at once, and all very easily, then lock it to XMP. For instance, if I have folders named B01 – B04, I simply add that folder name to the ‘tape information’ field for the group of clips that came off each card, then click the chain button. It makes relinking very easy.

You can then find the B04 folder in your file browser, and relink quickly.

Whatever floats your boat, but renaming and relinking within Premiere is possible if that’s something you’d like. Bridge is much better at the batch process, but the information doesn’t jive with Premiere very well. It’d be nice if Bridge was able to batch rename the metadata (or XMP) and have that info update within Premiere, but Bridge doesn’t seem to be XMP aware.

Of course, any files that aren’t attached to a certain file structure can be renamed with no downsides.

Jeremy

[Joe Chow]

Agree. And I’ve been away from tape workflows so long (been doing Log & Transfer thing in FCP, so I’m new to Premiere as well) that I forget there are metadata columns in Premiere that reference Reel Name which should be used in just the way you suggest.
Anyway, I’ll try your way in a project which might require access to media from a non-Premiere system, where timecode is paramount as well.
And I do hope Adobe steps up the issue of XMP-awareness for Bridge, as you say, especially if they want the application to be truly pan-CS in functionality.

[Fedya Nomad]

May be this can be an option to use BatchRenameFiles Tool before you actually import you files in Bridge. Thanks