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How do I get a video title to match it's filename?

Anonymous
2011-01-10T02:00:38+00:00

Hi,

I take some family videos with my Sony camera and download them to my computer using Sony's PMB software.

The default filenames for the videos are something like "M4H00692.MP4". I like to put the videos in a folder under My Videos and then watch them on our TV using a Seagate Free Agent Theater + or on other computers using Windows Media Player 12 (I'm using Windows 7 on all computers). Everything works fine except for one issue. I like to rename the files to using Windows Explorer to something more meaningful like "Baby Crawling.MP4" rather than the name the camera assigns. The problem is that the Seagate Theater and Windows Media Player list/show the movies by their Title and not their filename. But the title doesn't get changed with the filename and retains the original M4H00692 name. So when I look at the media library from the Seagate Theater or WMP all I see are the M4H... titles.

What is the best approach to renaming my videos to something meaningful that will also show up with another media device. That is, how do I get the Title to change at the same time the filename is changed. Do I make all these changes inside Windows Media Player or do I do things a certain way or in a certain order when working within Windows Explorer?

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-12T14:43:14+00:00

    Thanks, but not quite what I was going for. I know how to change the filename. What I would like to know is how to change the Title so it matches the filename in Windows Media Player. I change the filename but the title remains as before so the files are still listed in WMP by their original title.

    ![](http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd346/the4beespics/WMP.jpg)

    Here's a screenshot of what I'm trying to get at. I've set WMP to view by details rather than icon to get the pictured display. On the left circled in blue is the media title, which was originally the filename as it came off the camera. On the right circled in red is the new filename that I've given the file using Windows Explorer. So you can see that the file name is now rocket.mp4 while the title is M4H01706. This becomes a problem when the media player I'm using only displays the title and not the filename.

    What I would like to know is how to change the title so it matches the filename. I know I can go into WMP and edit each one manually but it seems a waste to have to change both the filename and the title manually. I would like to know if there is some way for the title to update automatically to match the new file name.

    Hopefully I'm clear in what I'm after.

    Thanks.

    All of that information is encoded into the file metadata. If you were changing an entire category (like genre say) in WMP to be the same for multiple files you could select all of the files within that column, pick edit and all the selected files would show the new genre, or whatever.

    I think what you might want is a 3rd party app something along the lines of this:http://www.zunescene.mobi/forums/index.php?topic=8887.0

    But I don't yet know of an other similar app that handles miscellaneous video file types.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-10T04:49:46+00:00

    Thanks, but not quite what I was going for. I know how to change the filename. What I would like to know is how to change the Title so it matches the filename in Windows Media Player. I change the filename but the title remains as before so the files are still listed in WMP by their original title.

    ![](http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd346/the4beespics/WMP.jpg)

    Here's a screenshot of what I'm trying to get at. I've set WMP to view by details rather than icon to get the pictured display. On the left circled in blue is the media title, which was originally the filename as it came off the camera. On the right circled in red is the new filename that I've given the file using Windows Explorer. So you can see that the file name is now rocket.mp4 while the title is M4H01706. This becomes a problem when the media player I'm using only displays the title and not the filename.

    What I would like to know is how to change the title so it matches the filename. I know I can go into WMP and edit each one manually but it seems a waste to have to change both the filename and the title manually. I would like to know if there is some way for the title to update automatically to match the new file name.

    Hopefully I'm clear in what I'm after.

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-10T04:14:21+00:00

    Click the yellow folder next to the start button, in the file folders tree select my videos, point at the video you want to rename, look at the top right corner, select either the file listing or organize, from either drop down select properties, click in the box where the name is and back up and type the name you want it named as, and select apply and save or okay.

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