Renaming Clips in Final Cut Pro

[Ron Craig]

Perhaps there’s any easier way but you could just rename all your clips to match the names he used and then re-linki.

And then ask him why he renamed all the clips if he knew in advance what your workflow would be. Try to keep your voice down.

[Mark Raudonis]

Your “friend” has totally F*@k’d your workflow. He must have come from an Avid background
where renaming clips is NOT a problem. As you’ve noticed, renaming clips in FCP can be a huge
problem… especially in a shared storage or “tag team” workflow.

Bottom line. Don’t do that if you want to make it home for dinner.

Did you not discuss mundane details like project organization BEFORE you started?

Mark

[Shane Ross]

Now you are going to need to get all of the media from him again. Clone his drive.

Next time he can rename the CLIPS with no problem…they’ll still relink the the media. But changing the MEDIA names. Yeah, he f@*ked this pretty bad.

Shane

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[Nick Meyers]

actually, while this scenario has the POTENTIAL for disaster,
there might be an easy fix.

if your friend only re-named the CLIPS, not the MEDIA, then his project would still be linked to files that have the same names as yours.

the project file should remember this,
and if the file path is identical on both systems,
then it should conect without any prompting.

for the file path to be identical, the drives have to have the same name.

maybe your frind used Media Maanger to create an offline version of the project.
this would be one rason your version has lost it’s links.

all he needs to do is to copy the relavent sequnce/s into a project and save it.
then zip of that project file (right click on the file, chose “make archive” or “compress”)
and email it to you.

now IF this opens, you can sort out the re-naming mess, using the Modify > Name functions
you can chose to modify the clip names back to the original file names,
or
change the file names to match the clip names.
this could be tricky given your RED workflow

you would do this at the same time, maybe on the phone.

nick

[Arnie Schlissel]

I fear that Mark & Shane may be soft-peddling this a bit. If you need to match back to the original .r3d camera files for mastering to film or SR tape, then you’re really hosed.

When you work with any tapeless media, your original camera files are your “negatives”. You need to maintain your relationship to those original file names, and you need to maintain them across drive crashes, project file corruptions and other unhappy events.

When you rename your clips in your FCP project, you’re only 1 mouse click away from loosing that relationship forever. If you start up FCP and it tells you it needs to relink some media and you click “continue” instead of “relink”, then you’ve lost that relationship.

Do not rename your clips. FCP gives you several columns in the browser to use for the kind of descriptions that you need to organize yourself. Keep those stupid, random filenames for the day that disaster strikes.

Arnie
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[Shane Ross]

Well Arnie, I can attest that importing footage from P2 keeps it linked to the actual media file name, which is this long 32 character thing. Because I have import P2, changed the name, used the RENAME>FILE TO MATCH CLIP…so that changed the media file name from 004GH3 to what I named it. Then I edited….then I used Media Manager to MAKE OFFLINE and make a sequence that only used what was in the cut, with handles. Then I used BATCH CAPTURE to reimport all the clips. And it worked…it imported the right clips, and paid attention to the IN and OUTs.

But this was on FCP 7. I don’t think FCP 6 will pay attention to the IN and OUT points, but will rather import the full clips used in that cut. But it does get the right clips…even though the media file was renamed.

No, the big danger here is with multiple editors and changing file names. That messes everything up.

Shane

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