When you bring an EDL in to the media panel from MediaHub, why does Flame assign it a name which is actually the title at the top of the EDL (visible in a text editor), and not the filename of the .edl? It’s very annoying.
Is there a way to change this behaviour?
(Multiple EDLs have been provided from the same external source - these have different filenames but all have the same title on the first line of text - Flame gives them all the same name in the media panel, so they have to be manually re-named to differentiate - annoying)
Sadly, the edl format has changed little since the 1970’s, so having the same name on every layer is coded into the applications that generate them. Is there a reason you don’t want to load them as multi-layer edls?
@ytf
Yes I want to keep them separate (so I can control how they are assembled into one seq later) and just have them named in Flame as per filename, not as per title on line 1.
Doesn’t seem an unreasonable expectation… The current behaviour is a bit like if you imported two clips with matching TC, and Flame ignored the filenames and instead named them both as per TC (also causing the Add/Rename/Replace prompt).
@philm
Thanks for providing the scripts. I was hoping it was possible within Flame, but of course this is a good workaround.