Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 346)

Reasons Example characters Avoid
You cannot use colons in the names of files and
folders because Mac OS 9 (Classic) uses this
character to separate directories in pathnames. In
addition, some applications may not allow you to
use slashes in the names of items. These characters
are directory separators for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X,
and DOS (Windows) respectively. : (colon)
/ (slash)
\ (backslash)
File separators
These characters may not be supported or may
be difficult to work with when exported to other
applications. ¢™ Special characters not
included in your native
alphabet
These characters are often used in scripting and
programming languages. . , [ ] { } ( ) ! ; “ ` * ? < > | Punctuation marks,
parentheses, quotation
marks, brackets, and
operators
White space is handled differently in different
programming languages and operating systems,
so certain processing scripts and applications may
treat your files differently than expected. The most
conservative filenames avoid all use of white space
characters, and use the underscore (_) character
instead. White space characters
such as spaces, tabs,
new lines, and carriage
returns (the last two are
uncommon)
Creating Custom Name Formats
In addition to the preset name formats, you can create custom name formats. To create
a name format, you select the name elements you want in the Naming Presets dialog.
You can compose a name format that combines the name elements that appear in the
dialog.
To create a custom name format
1 In the Logging area of the Log and Transfer window, choose New from the Name Preset
pop-up menu.
346 Chapter 23 Logging File-Based Media