Af100 clip re-name work around that may work.

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pulpwoody

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One of the most frustrating things is, despite loading the metadata, the clip names within Premiere Pro always end up being 0000, 0001, 0002, etc. I contacted Panasonic, and there's nothing i can do about that.

I'm able to use the Automater program on the mac to do this. I navigate to the STREAM folder and drag the .mts files into the Automator window. I have a Rename Finder Item workflow that I use to do this. I tell Automator to replace 00, the first two zeros, with my name, Woody.

That works fine.

Within PP, it reads the video clips as woody1, woody2, woody3, etc.

I give the SD card to my producer, he starts a new PP project, imports the same files, edits them together, exports a project file for me. I download it, open it, reconnect the media, and everything works fine.

The one thing I have noticed, is that after the re-name, when I put the card back into the camera, the camera can no longer read the files. I don't know if this would be a big deal to me.

So, everything seems to be working fine so far, but for the more experienced folks out there, do you foresee any other problems?
 

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Yes there are problems. First and foremost, if you have any "spanned clips", the computer will not know how to span them back together into one continuous clip. Plus, if there was any other metadata in use (clip markers, "good" shot markers, etc) those will all have disappeared.
 
I dont understand why you need to replace the filenames with just another meaningless file name?


ID your files by naming the Folder that contains them. eg Woody Rushes Day 1...
 
Barry_Green said:
Yes there are problems. First and foremost, if you have any "spanned clips", the computer will not know how to span them back together into one continuous clip. Plus, if there was any other metadata in use (clip markers, "good" shot markers, etc) those will all have disappeared.
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Thanks Barry.
 
Shooter said:
I dont understand why you need to replace the filenames with just another meaningless file name?


ID your files by naming the Folder that contains them. eg Woody Rushes Day 1...
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Because within Premiere Pro, it doesn't matter what I call the folder, the clip names never change, and that's the problem. If I hand a two camera shoot off to an editor for multi-cam cutting, guess what, he gets two folders with identical clip names, and when PP asks, "where is 0001.mts," he doesn't know if that's my camera or the other camera, and that will cause huge problems and cost us money. If I could rename the clips, in camera, none of this would be an issue, but that doesn't work. I'm beginning to think it's more of a PP issue.
 
In CS6, and previously in CS5, my best practice was to place the original card media in unique folder names, and upon import, have those folder names intact in the project bin. That way, whenever I have to reconnect, the root folder of the clips with identical names are different and appear identical, both in finder/explorer and the project bin.

It's not a great solution, but it works, and it's the best one I've found to date.
 
Cheapest workaround I found was to use clipwrap to rewrap the MTS files along with their metadata into qt movies and then batch renaming the files in adobe bridge.
 
pulpwoody said:
Because within Premiere Pro, it doesn't matter what I call the folder, the clip names never change, and that's the problem. If I hand a two camera shoot off to an editor for multi-cam cutting, guess what, he gets two folders with identical clip names, and when PP asks, "where is 0001.mts," he doesn't know if that's my camera or the other camera, and that will cause huge problems and cost us money. If I could rename the clips, in camera, none of this would be an issue, but that doesn't work. I'm beginning to think it's more of a PP issue.
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Well its not a PP issue because its the AVCHD filenaming protocol.

I frequently have multiple unique nmaed folders containing avchd files of the same name.

Premiere manages that fine .

I ensure that we have a different TC for each SD Card eg 00:00:00, ......01, 02, 03 etc...
This is to enable EDL management and search / sort.

BTW - when PP asks foran asset by name it means it is Offline. Why is it offline in the first place?
 
Shooter said:
Well its not a PP issue because its the AVCHD filenaming protocol.

I frequently have multiple unique nmaed folders containing avchd files of the same name.

Premiere manages that fine .

I ensure that we have a different TC for each SD Card eg 00:00:00, ......01, 02, 03 etc...
This is to enable EDL management and search / sort.

BTW - when PP asks foran asset by name it means it is Offline. Why is it offline in the first place?
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We have our producer get the footage and make a rough edit in PP on his computer. He gives me the project file, then I have to reconnect the clips on my computer.
 
pulpwoody said:
We have our producer get the footage and make a rough edit in PP on his computer. He gives me the project file, then I have to reconnect the clips on my computer.
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Well assumeably then.... you both have the same Source footage on each of your systems under the same Folder Names.(whatever they are).

So all you have to do is link one file in each folder and all the rest follow thru as well.
 
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