Media Management - Workflow

It puts them in the same Original Media folder and adds a number to one of the duplicate names.

- Ronny

Like this





That's the way they appear inside the iMovie library package. Couldn't even bother to change the name.

Yep that's it. But at least they are merged without any issues while FCPX at this stage does not even let you merge them.

- Ronny

Whoopa,
about the batch renaming thing, I recommend using Path Finder. It's surely more expensive than Name Mangler, but it's a complete and very satisfying Finder substitute and does plenty of things, one of them being a very good batch renaming.

Cheers
MG

Thank you for tips and the efforts!

iMovie importing looks like a clear improvement.

What would have been great was if the import function of FCPX would let you batch rename. But perhaps it's too much to hope for.

Anyway, sure looking forward to next FCPX.

You can batch rename. Highlight several clips, pick a naming preset, changes them all at once.

BenB, as far as I know, currently this technique just renames the clips inside FCPX, while Whoopa has the need to change the filenames as seen in the Finder.
Everybody correct me if I'm wrong!

Hopefully FCPX 10.1 will address this behavior and let us change the filenames, too.

Correct, it only changes metadata, not the file's physical name.