I don't know enough to understand why it's a thing, but my post house guy told me emphatically about that back in the day. Without reel names (in final cut it was called "Reels") you frequently get errors. The most common kind of error arose when you used multiple clips from the same file, which obviously is something that people commonly do. I don't know why it prevents that problem from happening or why it occurs in the first place, but yeah. I have just gone through in the past and consolidated my project to just the media that i need and then entered values in there. if I'm feeling paranoid, I'll copy and paste the name of the file into the Tape Name column, if not, then i'll just button mash my way through with "asdfdgfh" kinds of values in there to speed the process up. I don't think it matters. it just needs something there. supposedly.... i think...
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