Difference between revisions of "UM:Appendix Extracting Names"

Some parts of the application assign names to items such as library material or folders based on a set of predefined rules. These rules are defined in the application preferences Capture/Conform tab.

These rules are used for :

Both Auto assign Name and Auto create library folder use the following interface convention when building a filename/folder structure :

i.e. M folders up, adding N folders

The settings here control the creation of a name string based on the filename/folder structure on disk. The resulting string can be used as a name, or part of a name, of an item in a project library.

Basic Name String

Consider the example file and folder structure :

The filename is "clip" inside folder "one".

We start by going :

M folders up :

Where we end up, we then:

add N folders (such that we try and end up with N folders) :

The result here can be used as a name, or as part of a name.

How we use this resulting basic name, and whether we use it at all, depends on other parameters.

The Auto Assign Name parameter in the Capture/Conform preference tab, defines what Material Name we give imported files/sequences inside the project library.This name is extracted from the file name and/or folder structure according to rules defined here.

Once we have our basic name string described above, we determine its use via a drop-down selector of :

These settings control whether we combine our basic string with the actual filename when creating the library material name (apart from the replace with filename setting).

For our first resultant basic string calculated above :

We end up with :

This setting defines whether we create named library folders automatically on material import. The folder names are created according to rules defined here.

Once we have our basic name string described above, we determine its use via a drop-down selector of :

The folder string constructed is only used for the settings filename and filename hierarchical .

See the chapter on Capture/Conform preferences for details.

If tape name is selected, a library folder is created and named as per the tape name extracted from the file or its path.

The tape name field in the library can be assigned from both the file header and the file path.

If we take the tape name from the file path, our choice is a single value extracted from the filename/filepath :

M folders up e.g.

Example :

Result :