[LOGGED] Rename Scene Actor

[Skulpture]

A very specific request - was wondering if an actor could be made to rename a scene?

[DusX]

@skulpture

Anything is possible I would think. Can't imagine this would be a widely needed feature though. What is your use-case?

[Skulpture]

@dusx A client project. Nothing too fancy - but all under NDA. I basically have 59+ images in my media bin and I was wanting to rename the scenes to the images that take up the whole screen/ouput so I can keep track of everything. 

[Woland]

@skulpture

Theoretically you could do it automatically using the Get Media File Name actor to feed the text into a Pythoner actor that then keystrokes the keyboard shortcut for rename Scene then pastes the file name into the Scene name.

[Woland]

@skulpture

Here's a Pythoner file that does exactly that. It can take a media file name and rename a scene after the file name.

I tested it only on macOS, so you'd need to test it on Windows, but it should have code to handle working on Windows already. The script is not too complex, so it should be fine.

python-rename-scene-after-media-2025-08-14-4.1.3.zip

[Skulpture]

@woland Thanks will check it out - that's pretty advanced stuff. Cheers.

[Woland]

@skulpture

It's basically just taking the file name from the Get Media File Name actor, then doing the equivalent of these keystrokes:

1. Cmd+c (copy)
2. Cmd+r (rename scene)
3. Cmd+v (paste)
4. Enter (confirm Scene Name)

[Woland]

@skulpture said:

Thanks will check it out

Feel free to let me know if you have any issues with it. It should be easy enough to fix since the actions I'm performing are independent from each other and not very complex.

[Woland]

@skulpture

I updated my file and User Actors to make them even easier to use python-rename-scene-after-media-v3-2025-08-19-4.1.3.zip

[Woland]

@skulpture

I've now logged this as a feature request as well :)

[Skulpture]

@woland thanks @Woland I did test and worked once, then I did something and it stopped. I ended up just abbreviating the scene names. A bit lazy of me *holds hands up*, but I am waiting to hear back from the client anyway. I can think of a few other scenarios where this may be useful, so hopefully it could be used by others. 

[Woland]

@skulpture said:

I did test and worked once, then I did something and it stopped

 If you send me the file privately (without media) I can try to see what happened.