Regex - VK and Soundminer

I’ve mentioned RegEx before but thought I’d share some useful ones and some resources. 

VK allows for filtering on import of EDL’s. This is the Regex that I am using for this particular project to strip out all info other than Scene and Take from the Clip name.

_[(0-9A-Z)]*.+|\([a-zA-Z0-9]*.|\ (a-z0-9A-Z)*.+|\*

It’s not the prettiest and there is probably a more ‘tuned’ string out there somewhere but it works and I’m happy with that. 

With Soundminer I needed to repopulate the Scene Take and Tape fields from the filenames of some split out polyphonic files. Not going to go into why this was necessary right now but here is a regex string that was very useful in conjunction with the Admin functionality and the Find and Replace features in Soundminer. 

[._][(A-Z)(0-9)].*

Note this particular string and the process within Soundminer CAN be destructive to your files. I used the UserComments (whcih was completely empty) as a scratch pad for testing. 

Comments

[jimlongo]

You're brave.

I must say I've always been intimidated by RegEx, not for the faint of heart.

[Ceri Thomas]

Actually with each new project/application of it I get to know more. Bizarre 'language' but so powerful.

Still not comfortable with the markers/counters features, just a little too automated for my liking to be used on sound rolls…

Thanks for reading