Camera clip names

There was a recent thread in the PP forum where the OP wanted to transcode all his material (similar to FCP workflow) to manage his clip names to avoid duplication. I was wondering what the card file structure and clip naming was for the most common cameras.
I have a couple of the Sony EX series of cameras and there is an option to give each clip a unique number with a user set prefix. This seems to get round the problem of duplicate file names, do other cameras have this option?
This is my SXS card file structure, as you can see, the prefix is B-Coventry (camera and project) followed by the unique number:

Please watch my tutorial at www.proapptips.com/shane P2 INTRODUCTION
No...there is no way to change this naming scheme. It is how the camera keeps the clip names unique. What you need to do is after you import, watch the clips and add your own description to it...BUT DO NOT ERASE THE NAME. So after you import the clip, ADD the name to it like:
0001DT - Man on street corner
0002R5 - Duck flies into man, knocking him down
0003GG - Man beats up duck
Something like that. This way you still have the number, in case your media ever gets lots or corrupt...or you lose a drive....you can always re-import. This is why keeping the number is so important.
Now...when you copy the footage onto an external drive, that drive them becomes your source "tape." Because you erase the P2 card to use again. You then take the footage from that drive and import that onto ANOTHER drive, your media drive. That drive is what you then use to edit the footage, and the first drive you put on a shelf, because again, that is your source tape. If your media drive goes down, or the footage gets lost, you just re-import from the first drive.
This is just what you have to do if you are using this workflow and want to keep your source footage. It would be unwise to delete the CONTENTS folder and master MXF files after you import. You are deleting your backups. It would be like capturing footage from a tape, then throwing it away, or erasing it to be used again. You wouldn't do that, would you?
Shane

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