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[GaryG45]

I've tested importing two home videos and see an issue with the Name tag on both them.  I've searched the forum and cannot find an explanation for what happens.  The filenames of the videos are:
1995-1996 Family Videos.mp4
Jess 1st Birthday Aug 31, 1988

After import the Name tag for the first video is 1995 and for the second it is Jess 1st Birthday Aug 31,

It appears that the dash in the first file stops the Name creation and the blank after the comma stops it in the second file.

I'm using Auto-Import.  Is there something I need to add during import to get the full filename in the Name tag?  Do I need to use a specific filename format for Home Videos?  TIA.

Gary

[RoderickGI]

I'm not sure what is going on with the first file, but with the second this change is probably the answer:

25.0.74 (7/8/2019)
1. Changed: When doing a movie lookup, the year will be stripped from the name if the movie is named like [Name] ([Year]).

Assuming that you are using that version or later. But that would only strip the year if MC thought you were importing a movie, I believe. It does that when it tries to look the movie up online, to gather metadata.

If you put your Home Videos into a specific folder, rather than in amongst other video types (movies, TV shows), then try configuring Auto Import for your Home Videos folder to set the [Media Sub Type] field to "Home Video". That may change the way the CARNAC (see Wiki) function interprets the file name. That should at least stop the year being stripped from the second file. See if it fixes the other issue as well.

If not, you tag all Home Video files in Auto Import with a rule such as;

[Name]=filename([Filename (name)],0)

Which should remove the file name extension from the filename and save that as the [Name] field/tag.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Carnac
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/File_Path_and_Identifier_Functions#FileName
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Auto-Import
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Tag_on_Import

[GaryG45]

I forgot to mention that the two files were the only files in a folder named Home Videos and that I used Auto-Import and set the Media Sub Type field to Home Video.  From what I had read in the forum, I thought Carnac might be the reason for the Names I received.

I removed the videos and reimported with your suggestion.  It worked as expected.  Thanks for all of your help.