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New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips
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New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 14, 2006 07:04PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,217 |
Hey Folks,
Since the SF Cutters List-Serve is not online for non-subscribers, you may be missing cool info and freebies that are posted regularly.
Sign up for our list here:
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Our latest freebie is a utility to rename media files associated with FCP clips. Pretty cool, so read the warnings and then check it out if you like. Might be just what you are looking for.
Cheers.
Kevin Monahan
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Since the SF Cutters List-Serve is not online for non-subscribers, you may be missing cool info and freebies that are posted regularly.
Sign up for our list here:
www.sfcutters.org/pages/list.htm
Our latest freebie is a utility to rename media files associated with FCP clips. Pretty cool, so read the warnings and then check it out if you like. Might be just what you are looking for.
Cheers.
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I posted to this list last week about a little utility I was working
on to rename the media files associated with Final Cut clips. I now
have an alpha of it, if anyone would like to try it out. It can be
found at:
[lateralfilms.com]
*** Please, do NOT use it on important, time-critical projects, as it
has not yet been thoroughly tested.***
If you download and try out the utility, please drop me a line at
robert@lateralfilms.com, so I have some idea how many people are
fooling with it, and how it's working. If you find bugs, please
report them.
To use the utility, you first export your project from FC as XML
(with nothing chosen, go to File>Export>XML). The FC_RenameTool takes
this XML file and changes the filenames associated with each clip
according to your settings. You can add a prefix, the reel number, a
suffix, or all of the above, and problem characters are stripped out
or replaced by underscores. If you check the option "Update online
clips" when you run the utility, it will also update paths for online
clips, and change the names of the associated media files on your
disk. At the end of the process, you will be prompted to save a new
version of the XML. You then import the new XML into Final Cut (as a
new project). All media that was online in the original project
should be online. The clip names in the bins will appear the same,
but the Source (under item properties) will reflect the new name. If
a file was offline when you ran the utility, when you batch capture
it the media file will have the new name.
Thanks,
Robert Arnold
www.lateralfilms.com
Kevin Monahan
Social Support Lead, DV Products
Adobe
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 14, 2006 08:00PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 2,174 |
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 14, 2006 09:35PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,217 |
Thanks. I'll let Robert know.
Kevin Monahan
Social Support Lead, DV Products
Adobe
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Kevin Monahan
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 15, 2006 04:25AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 5,638 |
i just downloaded it, but Robert must be tweaking it.
i got this message when i tried to use it:
"This alpha has expired. please contact etc, etc... for an updated version"
FWIW you can do this all within FCP, using the Media Manager
use MOVE mode,
DONT delete unused
Base media file names on: CLIP NAMES
BROWSE to your existing capture scratch,
i used to have some problems with it, but it seems to be working in 5.04
however, you need to only do one drives worth of clips at a time.
if the new app works it could be an improvement.
nick
i got this message when i tried to use it:
"This alpha has expired. please contact etc, etc... for an updated version"
FWIW you can do this all within FCP, using the Media Manager
use MOVE mode,
DONT delete unused
Base media file names on: CLIP NAMES
BROWSE to your existing capture scratch,
i used to have some problems with it, but it seems to be working in 5.04
however, you need to only do one drives worth of clips at a time.
if the new app works it could be an improvement.
nick
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 15, 2006 12:57PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 3 |
I'll try to field problems as they come:
Tom:
Are you choosing an XML export from a Final Cut 5 project? I haven't tested it with exports from older ones. If you give me a detailed description of what you've tried, I can probably figure out what's going on.
Nick:
This version is set to expire July 1st. Is the date on your computer set wrong by any chance? If the month were set to July or later (regardless of the year) you'd get that message, otherwise it's quite odd...
Please post bugs with details, or I can't fix them...
Thanks,
Robert Arnold
Tom:
Are you choosing an XML export from a Final Cut 5 project? I haven't tested it with exports from older ones. If you give me a detailed description of what you've tried, I can probably figure out what's going on.
Nick:
This version is set to expire July 1st. Is the date on your computer set wrong by any chance? If the month were set to July or later (regardless of the year) you'd get that message, otherwise it's quite odd...
Please post bugs with details, or I can't fix them...
Thanks,
Robert Arnold
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 15, 2006 01:32PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 2,174 |
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 16, 2006 05:50PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,317 |
rda wrote:
> Please post bugs with details, or I can't fix them...
Hi Arnold,
Great idea.
I tried the app with a project XML and it took about three or four hours to tell me the same thing Nick got.
Maybe the date settings from your location, Nick's and mine don't match. A US date of 07.01.2006 won't match a german 01.07.2006, if you compare the date strings.
I don't know how you do parse the XMLs, but even a big one shouldn't take more then 30 minutes (for the above mentioned huge one), even if you compare and modify node entries. I tried that XML with an app of mine, that read the complete XML, indexed each node, converted all frame entries into different absolute and relative timecodes, calculated durations, retrieved all entries for clips, subclips, markers, filters and filter groups and verified each source file for online/offline.
So maybe you could try another parser, or some more effective use of the XPath options your parser uses.
Let me know if I can help.
Regards
Andreas
Some workflow tools for FCP [www.spherico.com]
TitleExchange -- juggle titles within FCS, FCPX and many other apps.
[www.spherico.com]
> Please post bugs with details, or I can't fix them...
Hi Arnold,
Great idea.
I tried the app with a project XML and it took about three or four hours to tell me the same thing Nick got.
Maybe the date settings from your location, Nick's and mine don't match. A US date of 07.01.2006 won't match a german 01.07.2006, if you compare the date strings.
I don't know how you do parse the XMLs, but even a big one shouldn't take more then 30 minutes (for the above mentioned huge one), even if you compare and modify node entries. I tried that XML with an app of mine, that read the complete XML, indexed each node, converted all frame entries into different absolute and relative timecodes, calculated durations, retrieved all entries for clips, subclips, markers, filters and filter groups and verified each source file for online/offline.
So maybe you could try another parser, or some more effective use of the XPath options your parser uses.
Let me know if I can help.
Regards
Andreas
Some workflow tools for FCP [www.spherico.com]
TitleExchange -- juggle titles within FCS, FCPX and many other apps.
[www.spherico.com]
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 16, 2006 10:41PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 3 |
Ah, I built it to work with exports of entire projects, so it's expecting to drill down through at least one bin in the xml. I'll rewrite so it can handle what you tried, but in the meantime, throw those clips in a bin in a new project, export, and give that a try.
- Robert
Tom Wolsky wrote:
> I selected a groups of clips and subclips in the browser,
> exported to XML2 from FCP5.1.1.
>
- Robert
Tom Wolsky wrote:
> I selected a groups of clips and subclips in the browser,
> exported to XML2 from FCP5.1.1.
>
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 16, 2006 10:44PM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 3 |
> Great idea.
> I tried the app with a project XML and it took about three or
> four hours to tell me the same thing Nick got.
> Maybe the date settings from your location, Nick's and mine
> don't match. A US date of 07.01.2006 won't match a german
> 01.07.2006, if you compare the date strings.
Yes, that's exactly the problem with the expiration function.
At any rate, I'm doing a major rewrite of the whole thing. It was working fine for the little XML files I was testing on, but now I've found a much better parser engine that can handle bigger (and more varied) XML files, so I'm revamping. Just leave it alone until I post a new, vastly better version.
Thanks,
- Robert
Post Edited (06-17-06 01:13)
> I tried the app with a project XML and it took about three or
> four hours to tell me the same thing Nick got.
> Maybe the date settings from your location, Nick's and mine
> don't match. A US date of 07.01.2006 won't match a german
> 01.07.2006, if you compare the date strings.
Yes, that's exactly the problem with the expiration function.
At any rate, I'm doing a major rewrite of the whole thing. It was working fine for the little XML files I was testing on, but now I've found a much better parser engine that can handle bigger (and more varied) XML files, so I'm revamping. Just leave it alone until I post a new, vastly better version.
Thanks,
- Robert
Post Edited (06-17-06 01:13)
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Re: New Free Utility: Renames Media Files Same Name as Clips June 18, 2006 04:52AM |
Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,317 |
rda wrote:
> At any rate, I'm doing a major rewrite of the whole thing. It
> was working fine for the little XML files I was testing on, but
> now I've found a much better parser engine that can handle
> bigger (and more varied) XML files, so I'm revamping. Just
> leave it alone until I post a new, vastly better version.
Have a look at the XPath stuff first and the tutorials for that on the web, a good XPath handling can dramatically simplify something like your app.
Regards
Andreas
> At any rate, I'm doing a major rewrite of the whole thing. It
> was working fine for the little XML files I was testing on, but
> now I've found a much better parser engine that can handle
> bigger (and more varied) XML files, so I'm revamping. Just
> leave it alone until I post a new, vastly better version.
Have a look at the XPath stuff first and the tutorials for that on the web, a good XPath handling can dramatically simplify something like your app.
Regards
Andreas
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