punctuation in reel names?

[Kevin Cannon]

If you open the EDL in a text editor, is a reel name like “05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV” actually truncated to eight characters like “05. OFF “? CMX3600 doesn’t have enough characters to have that long a reel name, regardless of punctuation.

Usually I do this (also because FCP editors tend not to add reel numbers):

Export the EDL with the file name in comments, you get a line in the comments that says something like “from source file: 05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV”.

Then select in config>settings tab “extract reel numbers from EDL comments” so that when you import the EDL, it will come in using that longer filename for the reel of each event.

You also need to make sure each clip you bring into the media browser has a matching reel number, by using the config setting “assist reel numbers using”…

If that’s not the issue, maybe tell us what appears in the reel column of the conform page, versus what that clip lists as the reel when you right click and get “clip details” in the conform page. I’m not in front of my Resolve, so the wording might not be exact on some of these.

KC

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[Larry Di stefano]

[Kevin Cannon] “f you open the EDL in a text editor, is a reel name like “05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV” actually truncated to eight characters like “05. OFF “? CMX3600 doesn’t have enough characters to have that long a reel name, regardless of punctuation.

Usually I do this (also because FCP editors tend not to add reel numbers):

Export the EDL with the file name in comments, you get a line in the comments that says something like “from source file: 05. OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV”.

Then select in config>settings tab “extract reel numbers from EDL comments” so that when you import the EDL, it will come in”

I’m working on this same principle, using the file names as reels. DaVinci is set to extract reel numbers from EDL comments and Assist using reel numbers.

I’ve tested the pathname and it extracts the filename correctly. In the Conform EDL window the reel numbers don’t show up correctly. this only seems to happen for clips that are named as above, with two digits, a period, space, then other characters. The other reel names are extracted fine.

the same clip in the media pool highlighted below.

Thoughts?

[Kevin Cannon]

My guess is that the “extract reel from EDL comments” function is designed to strip the extension from the filename, so that everything after a period is mistakenly being seen as an extension?

Have you tried text editing the period out of the EDL comments and making a copy of the .mov without the period in the filename?

So

05 OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV

and

“from source file: 05 OFF THE BEATEN PATH; MAPLES-3.MOV”.

KC

prehistoricdigital.com
hardworkingpixels.com

[Larry Di stefano]

I’ll give that a shot but it extracts the reel number correctly when I test it in the project settings and give it the sample path. It has no problem with the period.

[Larry Di stefano]

Well, that does seem to work. Removed the periods it the EDL and in the filename. Is there a way I can force the Resolve to use the filename as is? I’d rather not have to text edit my EDL then rename half my files, then reimport them into resolve.

[Illya Laney]

You should try out TextWrangler for editing EDL’s. It makes things much easier.

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[Larry Di stefano]

Well a combination of Text Wrangler and A Better Finder Rename should do it now. I hope this all goes away with the new versions of Resolve and FCP, but I’m not holding my breath.

[Margus Voll]

Actually Automator makes wonderful file renamer when you get hold of the process correctly.

I use it a lot and you can rename tons of files in a second. Its is included in your OS so no need to buy
separate tool for renaming.

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Margus

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[Rohit Gupta]

[Kevin Cannon] “My guess is that the “extract reel from EDL comments” function is designed to strip the extension from the filename, so that everything after a period is mistakenly being seen as an extension? “

Kevin – you guess is correct!

This issue has been fixed and will appear when v8 ships. Meanwhile, other workarounds will have to used. This happens only when “dots” are used in the reel number/clip name.

Regards,
Rohit

[Larry Di stefano]

is there a way to get automator to only change the first instance of the offending info? I’ve got several file names that have the same “dot-space” twice.