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Self-Tape File Naming

If the notice specifies a filename format, use it exactly — that format usually exists because someone downstream is sorting hundreds of files. When nothing is specified, your name, the role and the project, separated clearly, is the safe default. Never send a file still called by the camera's own reference number.

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