How do I change all permissions on a hard drive in one shot?

I am a video editor who just moved a few hard drives into my new Mac Pro.
Unfortunately, all the footage is 'Owned' by the 'User' of the old Mac Pro. This means that I can't move or rename files, among other limitations I'm certain that I just haven't run into yet.
Instead of going one by one unlocking and adding myself as an owner with read and write capabilities, is there anyway to apply such a change to all files and folders on a hard drive in one action?
Thank you very very kindly!

Select the drive or folder of files, then Finder > Get Info and apply your permissions and at the bottom is a spoky thingy that you click and apply to enclosed items.
Don't do this on a boot drive, only onto folders you know to be of the older user account. Not program folders or system folders as they have other permisssions settings.
If you have problems with user permisisons on your account, then there is a Step to fix that here
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