subclip naming bug

[paulodefender]

Hi,

I've posted this elsewhere but wanted to try again to see if I can get some help from the community and Adobe hopefully.

I've often used subclipping for breaking up long interviews etc into soundbites and then batch exported these as a group of seperate little clips to send to clients for review etc.

In the past, I've played the long master clip in the viewer, marked in and out points, command - U to create a subclip and accepted Premiere's automatic naming structure. This has kept things speedy and reference accurate as the exported clips exactly match the names of the subclips in the premiere project bin. 

Now however, Premiere seems to have changed it's naming behaviour somewhere along the line.

The process still works just as described above except, vitaly, now on export, the subclips loose their Subclip001 naming extension and are simply called the master file name. For example master clip C0057 when subclipped is named C0057.MP4.Subclip001

Upon export, (with a prores preset for example), bizarely this subclip becomes C0057.MP4.mov

I'm sure the problem here is that Premiere should be placing the Subclip naming addition before the .MP4

file extension and indeed this is the only thing in testing that leads to the file exporting correctly, so C0057 subclipped and re-named as C0057Subclip001.MP4 exports with the name intact and correctly replaces .MP4 with .mov

It seems that premiere is seeing .Subclip0001 as a file extension and removing it.

I've tried all types of media and dumped preferences, wiped premiere and re-installed the latest version - same behaviour and it never happened before. I regualrly do this for 100's of clips in long form projects so renaming each clip will cost me a lot of money. 

Is anyone else experiencing this behaviour because maintaining file names that match the names in a project bin is pretty essential stuff for editing software and shouldnt have to be corrected by hand. Adobe helpfully suggested I rename the clips afterwards in the finder,  uh no Adobe, just no.

[Ann Bens]

Guessing you want to export the file as: C0057.MP4.Subclip001.mov

[paulodefender]

Hi Ann,

thanks for your reply. That's correct although the .MP4. part is not really great, (more than one . in any file name isn't good practice), I'd take this as long as it matches what the subclip is called in the project bin.

[paulodefender]

Is it just my software/machine or do you get the same behaviour?

many thanks P

[Ann Bens]

Its not a bug its by design: Premiere drops the subclip001 bit on export.

[paulodefender]

Okay, I'll have to find a solution outside of Premiere.

I'm struggling to understand the benefit of 'designing' an editing programme, where file naming and organisation is of paramount importance, that deliberately creates an automatic naming structure that promotes mis-matched, duplicate and double file extension labelled files and leads to extra work and less efficient working speed. 

Files that end in .MP4.mov are clearly flawed not designed.

[Ann Bens]

You can batch rename in the Bridge.

[paulodefender]

Hi Ann,

How would that work? Apologies, I've never used bridge.

Many thanks

Paul

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

Sorry ,but easier for you to open Bridge and hit F1 and type batch rename them for me to type out how to...

[Allmanic]

I have had the same issue -- with a bin full of subclips. It is the "." scattered in the names that mess it up. I am using Adobe's Batch and Rename plug-in to select the clips, and tell it to replace the "." with a dash, or whatever you want. In my case, the string was Replace ".mov." with "_mov_" -- worked quickly, and then Premiere was quitre happy to export the subclips with the subclip numbers (0001 etc) intact. It costs $30 but I had spent hours trying to work around this problem, exporting XML and all that. This worked fast and easy.