How to batch rename information inside an Avid Media Composer bin.

Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one in all our knowledgeable contributors to share a tip, software, or approach that they use on a regular basis and couldn’t reside with out. This week, Avid editor Jack Brown shares easy methods to batch rename information inside a Media Composer bin.

So most Avid Editors—and positively assistants—will know that metadata performs a giant position in what we do. From labels of the sound ISOs, to sending the lens knowledge of clips to the VFX dept, to creating our personal customized notes and labels, metadata could be very a lot our pal.

There can be occasions when we have to edit or add metadata throughout lots of clips directly. If we’re making use of the similar data to all these clips that is straightforward: we choose all of the clips after which right-click over the metadata column and set the information for that subject. This will apply the change to all clips.

But what if we need to do one thing much less constant. Like eradicating all these infernal “.copy.01” suffixes avid creates? Or including prefixes/suffixes of our personal? Or even constructing distinctive labelling per clip with counters like VFX IDs? This is the place Avid Bulk Edit is available in.

Bulk Edit was added shortly after the Avid redesign in 2019 and has had one or two enhancements since. Basically it’s a batch rename utility however contained in the bin, permitting us to edit huge swathes of knowledge in a couple of clicks.

Using Bulk Edit in Avid Media Composer

Using Avid’s Bulk Edit is straightforward:

1. Select the clips you need to edit (or not for those who simply need to edit all the things within the bin) 
2. Right click on the choice and select “Bulk Edit” 

You’ll be introduced with the Bulk Edit window permitting you to create a series of renaming duties and even save them to be reused afterward different clips/bins. You can see in my instance I’ve obtained a series to make use of metadata from the sound recorder to shortly title all of the clips within the format of “SLATE – SCENE/TAKE.”

From the bin you can even run a Find and Replace on knowledge as properly. Strangely, this isn’t within the Bulk Edit window however as an alternative an choice in the identical right-click menu. It seems on the prime of the bin, permitting us to exchange particular phrases with something we like—together with nothing, for those who simply need to do away with one thing within the knowledge. This may also be a quick strategy to insert data/characters in the midst of a clip title of knowledge column, too.

This has been one in all my favourite new additions lately. With Bulk Edit being added in model 2020.4 and Find and Replace coming in v2020.9.