Hello!
I’ve tried vibe coding a .py file to add a button that will grab the ‘shot name’ of all clips in a sequence, and copy them over to the ‘Tape Name’ in the metadata. its not worked as planned.. but I will keep trying, as i’m new to the world of vibe coding,
I’m wondering if anyone had already created something alike that they could share?
Thanks!
tape_name is read only via API. Look down at read only properties for PySegment
Hopefully soon we will have full flexibility to add whatever metadata tags we could ever want.
I dont know what you are up to but I cant help myself and say that clobbering the tape metadata might not be the best. I treat tape & timecode metadata to be sacred, then shotname metadata would be present in the folder structure and filename (ex, shot abc0010 would in …/shots/abc0010/plates/…/abc0010_addl_details.####.exr) during publish. Having tape metadata present really helps track down the camera RAW after publishing. If you ever need to extract the shot name back from published plates or shot name was clobbered but you still have segment names, its possible using this method
If you really want to do this, you can manually edit the tape name in the conform tab for the open sequence.
Select all segments.
Change Comment to .
Use Comment token to do what you want.
Or wait until a different solution materializes.
Thanks! Will look into it.
The only reason to change tape name is to fix a TC quirk when using BLGs, for some reason they need to have the shot name in the tape name to work properly for us.
As I usually do that menually in the conform tab, I assumed there should be a simple automated script that does a batch ‘copy paste’ for all clips at the same time instead of doing it one by one..
If you’re exporting for grade with renamed shots, it sounds like BL is taking the tape name from the filename as opposed to from the file header.