I believe what I’m about to ask isn’t possible, but I’d like to make sure. Is there any way to modify a clip’s original name when exporting? I’m asking because it’s very annoying that in certain scenarios, the clip’s extension of the original clip becomes part of the name in, so when exporting, you end up with something like clipname.mov.mov.
Maybe not exactly what you’re asking for – but I use the Find and Replace in Name Python Script all the time. It’s in the Logik Portal. Great for general file name maintenance within the project.
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No. I’m talking about add the flexibility to modify clip’s name in export. At first, to solve issues like clips being exported as ‘.mov.mov’, but I think it would be a great enhance to the workflow. Using a sort of regex of simple rename functions.
How are you importing a clip with its extension attached?
Normally the extension for a movie file doesn’t get included in the file name unless it’s actually in the file name. The only other scenario I can think of is if you have the “Keep Clip Name” disabled in the Conform tab, then when you conform something, it keeps the segment names from the edl/xml/aaf from offline, which often (in my opinion) contains bogus names that I don’t want–like .mov for example!
But other than that small sidenote, regex sounds like a super cool & powerful feature request to me.
Thanks Jeff. Yes, it’s happen conforming. Segment’s name end in “.mov”, clips matched end in “.mov” and batchs group created automatically create the clips with “.mov” suffix. This happens to me since eons. Clips are browsed in media hub without the extension, sure.
I´ve just checked the “keep clip name” option you mentionned. And no luck. New sequence conformed still with same issue.
Maybe is another shit of premiere’s xml. I could’n say when it happens and when not. Taking a look into xml, all clipnames attributes include the extension. I would need further tests, but anyway, it would be useless to fix the issue.
Thinking in a long term, not only to fix things like that, yes, I think it would be a great-super-cool feature.
Can you modify the clips after they are conformed/imported using the Conform tab to remove the .mov extension all at once? If you select all the clips in your conformed sequence then when you click on a name to change it in the Conform sources window, you should see the asterisk for pattern matching (clip_name*.mov) and if you delete the .mov from one, it should remove it from the other clips. Then you wouldn’t have the issue of needing to remove it on export because it would be removed from the start and anything you do with the clip in Flame wouldn’t have the extension included in the name.
Yep, thanks Matt. It works 
This is something you could do with Python.
Keep Clip Name works over here and I cant recall it ever appending the extension. You could also select the segments and rename using the Source Name token. There seems to be something screwy with your setup. Maybe test a different user? I have no idea really.
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Did it work for you with Premiere XML? I suspect that’s the problem. I had a look at the Premiere XML and, from what I can see, I think when it generates the XML it incorporates the extension as part of the name. But I can’t be sure. Right now I don’t have any XMLs exported from Premiere, nor any material to conform.
Ok. I was enabling the “keep clean name” button in the “assemble” option tab from the load xml window… enabling same button in conform area, it works as expected. Lol. I’ve spent years dealing with this shit. 
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I absolutely hate when I get clips in my timeline with the extension. It is one of the first things I do in the conform panel/window is select all clips that have names like that and clean them out en masse.
Regarding renaming on export, you could always name it whatever you want, but you can’t selectively edit a name on export
Using conform page to clean things up, shot names, etc. I would love for a more robust tokens. Indexing tokens would make me sooo happy. <background segment name 0:7> would be such a peach.
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there’s a feedback request for this!
I use John Geehreng’s Renamer UI 2.3. It’s on the portal.
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Me too. It is excellent
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thanks !!
The key of this is to be able to modify on exporting / publishing or even rendering and writting files without a previous renaming
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