Credit a whole shoot day once
Select the frames, enter the credit and copyright once, and check every new filename before you rename.
Photo: Dana Reyes · EP105 · Day 17
The shoot took a day. Crediting it should not take the night.
Enter the credit once, keep what is already there
Select the day's frames, open the Edit Metadata panel and fill in Creator and Copyright. Blank fields are never written. For each field you choose Replace All or Fill Empty Only; the panel starts on Replace All, so switch it when frames already carry a credit. Here 248 frames have no Creator and 64 are already credited to Second unit, and Fill Empty Only leaves those 64 alone. The button reads Apply to 312, so you see the count before you press it.
There is no undo for a bulk edit. The activity log records that it ran, who ran it and which fields it touched.
Rename the selection and see every new name first
Type a prefix and the New column shows every filename as it will be, next to the camera name it replaces. Names with spaces are blocked. When the list looks right, press Rename 312 Files. Rename has no undo either, so read the list before you press.
Rename adds a numbered prefix or replaces text in the current name. It does not build names from other fields.
Enter the credit once, keep what is already there
Select the day's frames, open the Edit Metadata panel and fill in Creator and Copyright. Blank fields are never written. For each field you choose Replace All or Fill Empty Only; the panel starts on Replace All, so switch it when frames already carry a credit. Here 248 frames have no Creator and 64 are already credited to Second unit, and Fill Empty Only leaves those 64 alone. The button reads Apply to 312, so you see the count before you press it.
There is no undo for a bulk edit. The activity log records that it ran, who ran it and which fields it touched.
Rename the selection and see every new name first
Type a prefix and the New column shows every filename as it will be, next to the camera name it replaces. Names with spaces are blocked. When the list looks right, press Rename 312 Files. Rename has no undo either, so read the list before you press.
Rename adds a numbered prefix or replaces text in the current name. It does not build names from other fields.
Tags
Apply and remove tags across a selection: see Tags.
Questions
- Can I undo a bulk change?
- No. Before you press Apply, check the count on the button and the strategy for each field. Rename shows every new name first. The activity log records that a bulk edit ran, who ran it and which fields it touched.
- Will bulk edit overwrite captions and credits already on the frames?
- Blank fields are never written. For each field you pick Replace All or Fill Empty Only, and the panel starts on Replace All. Fill Empty Only leaves anything already filled alone.
- Can I set metadata and tags in one step?
- No. Metadata is applied from the Edit Metadata panel and tags from the tagging tab. They are two separate steps.
- What can the rename do?
- Add a numbered prefix, or find and replace text in the current name. The prefix preview shows every current and new name first, and names with spaces are blocked.
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