Renaming files in FCP for Pro Tools

Hoo boy! We just learned from our sound designers that Pro Tools is having some issues with illegal characters in filenames inside our OMFs. Evidently ^ ! / ( ) - ; are all no good. Mostly this presents no problem (does anyone ever use a carat?), but our sound studio (also using Pro Tools, curiously enough) seems to have a penchant for the hyphen.
So now here's the problem: I have FCP sequences chock full of files with hyphens, and I have to be able to export the audio into OMFs with no hyphens. I'd love to find out there's a very smart and easy way to get around having to manually delete illegal characters (in the browser, of course) in 400+ files.
Any ideas?

you can do this by exporting an XML of your sequence , the basic premiss is:
open xml file in a text editor and do a find and replace on one of the known clip names
replace every instance except the "parthurl" item
save changes
double click the xml, tell fcp to create a new project and check the reconnect media box
everything should be exactly as before except the clip name should be changed globally, reveal in finder should still link back to the original file
... i was sure i'd seen a new release of a utility to do this just the other day, but can't seem to find it now ?

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>Is FCP X the end of FCP for pros?
Yes ... at least until FCPX is much more muture and robust than it is now.
>Has Apple abandoned us?
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Correct.
>What is Apple doing?
Making money.
>Why make FCP more like imovie?
Because that's where the market is most profitable for them.
>I guess it's time to switch back to Avid or even Adobe Premiere.
My plan as well.
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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/2011/DDR3_21.5_27
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC814LL/A?
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/en419171
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Michael Holmes1 wrote:
I have to record all the color changes I make in one Project, so I can repeat them in the other 17 projects, etc.
No.
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Select an Event with clips in it and press Option+G to make a (blank) compound clip.
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Drag the Compound Clip into this Event.
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The visual organization shouldn't matter (one track above another). That's the X way.
((In your picture, you say you have some files selected. When I select, I get a yellow border; yours are light green and dark green. What is that?))

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Hi hande,
now I will export it as OMF to work at OMNIMIX. They
say pro tools won't recognise the sound clips as
individual clips but as whole tracks instead.
Is this correct?
No. Audio clips from FCP import as seperate audio regions in Protools, at the correct timecode locations.
and while mixing, using an omf file
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Final Cut Pro sound export for mastering.....sync problem
Hey,
I'm editing a 30 minute film and I have done most of the sound edit in FCP and Soundtrack pro and I want to now bring all the sound into pro tools to master the sound but every time i export sound into pro tools it seems to stretch by two or three seconds.
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The FW800 port on my iMac recently broke, and rather than spend a lot on getting it fixed I've decided to just sell it to someone who doesn't need firewire and upgrade.
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Might want to ask this on a ProTools forum as well.
fwiw I have a 4 core MacMini Server w 8GB RAM and a 2008 MacPro 8 core w 16GB.
The Mini is used as a general file and A/V server when not specificially tasked with Final Cut Suite efforts.
Unless I have serious Compressor processes running (e.g. converting h.264 to an editable format) that draws on the full cores, the mini can do a good job keeping up with the MacPro.
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x

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