Name on exported clip

Hi,
I am making a video wordlist for signlanguage. I have several clips (each sign is a clip) and thay are each named after the sign they show.
Now - when I export these small (but veeeery many) clips to the Media Encoder, I have to "rename" them everytime in the export dialouge, since the default name there is the name of the sequence, rather than the name of the clip. For me, naming exported file after the clip name would have been more locical, so I am sure there is a way of getting this...
Or..?
Thanks in advance for finding me a way!
reagrds,
Håkan

Actually, the most common naming will be that of the Sequence, as that is usually a combo of Clips.
However, I do a bit of what you are, though nowhere near the scale of your Project. I just Select the name in the first Export, Copy it, or what part will be common, then Paste that into the Export File Name, incrementing, as I need. In your case, I am not sure how many characters will be common to the various File Names, so that probably will not save you that much work/typing.
I have the same issue with Titles, where I am doing them Based on Existing. Titler always defaults to the next increment of "Title XX," even where I have named that "Based On" Title to, say "Liz Text 01," next one is, by default, "Title XX," being the next number in that Project, even if I have changed all to reflect the content. There, it would be easier to program in, using the existing Title's name, and then maybe incrementing that.
Good luck, and manually naming is about all that I can think of.
Hunt

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