Copy and Paste text in finder

Hi,
I need to copy the file names in a folder I have containing 36 mp4 video files and paste the file names in text edit. Evey time I do a copy and paste the video files paste in text edit without names but what does get pasted is the video. Does anyone know how to copy the file names in the finder and pasting only the names in text edit? Thanks
Jon

I'm just curious. I finally got back to my Mac, and my instructions did work. I wonder if you did the following if it would work?
ls -a "/Volumes/A4A\ MEDIA\ STORAGE/mp4s\ for\ mobile/" >myfile.txt
it may be the problem is how you named the path, and it is getting messed up because of that. If there are spaces in place of the slashes above in the actual names, using the quotes allows you to use spaces, so removing those slashes for spaces where the real name has a space.

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