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Reconnect Media after renaming files
Hello to all who can help,
I have been working on this one project for this company since July. It was pretty much one project that contained 27 spots with it and footage was shared within all of the spots. Basically it is of an island in the Caribbean and some businesses on that island.
The project wrapped up and everybody went back to freelancing until the owner of this company found another island to go shoot, edit, and sell. Within that time, I got a few gigs and was unavailable to work a few days for this travel company on some small edits for the former project, so they hired another editor.
Ok, here is where it get fun. I was actually the second editor on this job. The company shot footage with the HDX900 and used a Firestore100. This was so that they did not have to digitize 70 tapes. But, the Firestore100 logs footage as something like “20070621-125816w16” and yes, the first editor did not take the time and rename the original files before he started to edit them, nor did he do any kind of log and transfer or anything. Simply dragged and dropped them into 27+ projects and began cutting. So when I got on, I didn’t want to have to rename the original files and reconnect the 27+ projects on each of those files. Of course, not all of the files where named this, it was only about 10% of the footage that was mostly beach b-roll.
Now, back to my issue. The third editor that came on after me, saw the “20070621-125816w16” named files and decided to rename them himself without asking for any guidance. Now, I have all of these “20070621-125816w16” files that are named aerial2, aerial3, etc, and I have to reconnect them.
So, is there a best way to do this? I am on FCP 6, I have been just trying to look at the timecode and copy and paste the names to the FCP browser files, I had success with the first project but everyone after that has not been allowing me to reconnect the media.
Thanks for all of your help and happy cutting.
Best,
Beau Brotherton
Macbook Pro 2.4GHz, Intel Core 2Duo, 4GB
FCP6
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2 Replies
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WIth final CUt 6 there’s a new feature that will allow you to name the clip on your hard drive the same as the clip in your bin or vice versa. Simply right click on the clips in the bin and choose Rename > File to Match Clip.
Sweet.
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Thanks for the reply, I tried that and nothing happened. For some reason it just kept the same name, the “20070621-125816w15” file name.
Then I changed the name of the clip in FCP to “beach shot a-1” or something, did the Rename > clip to match file: and it renamed the file back to “20070621-125816w15”.
Not sure what what is going on?
Thanks again, if you think of anything else I would love to hear it.
Beau
Beau Brotherton
Macbook Pro 2.4GHz, Intel Core 2Duo, 4GB
FCP6
HVX200
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