Log and Transfer renaming my clips

Hello everyone,
I have a problem with FCE - I have been using the Log and Transfer function to acquire video clips from my Sony HD cacmorder without problem until, out of curiosity (always a bad move), I clicked the 'Revert to Original Metadata' option in the Log and Transfer window.
Now, everytime I acquire a video clip it no longer imports as the name originally in the camcorder (e.g. "Clip#150") and instead names it as the next available clip number, e.g. "Clip#188".
I can't get this changed back and it's frustrating.
Anyone else have this problem or know how to solve it?
Many thanks in advance.

I'd never set up that many clips to go by themselves but that's just me.
Comparing the length of the clips to find which are not being transferred is not right, you should be using a counter and custom names.
Umm, wait, Log and Transfer or Log and Capture?
I do not know that camera but the proper ingest method would be to copy the cards to yoru drive and ingest from the drive, not the camera cards.
This ensures lots of things but also properly sets up any soaned files.
Why a particular file does not come in from a card is often bad storage media. There may be absolutely nothing you can do about that.
Look up the camera model, see if ayone else has had similar issues. Wait a few hours to see if ayone who has more experience with those codecs than I can offer something more helpful.
bogiesan

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