Hi all!
There is a way to diferenciate between to Shots with the same name, but on diferent Sequences on the Desktop Publisher?
I can find it… 
Probably doesn’t help you much currently, but going forward you could get around this with a slightly more detailed naming convention. Something like 101_1010 for the first shot, instead of simply 0001.
Depending on your type of project, 101 could be the first scene in the first episode of a script, or just the first sequence of shots that go together in your project. Starting at 101 allows you to insert new sequences prior, chronologically, like 050 etc.
Then I like to start shot numbering within the sequence at 1010 and increment numbers by 10 for each cut in the edit, regardless of it being a vfx shot or not, so cut two is 1020, etc. This gives a name to all shots, so if a shot is promoted to a vfx shot later on, it already has a name in the sequence. The numbering also allows for plenty of space for inserting of new shots for late edit changes without clashing with existing shots or the shot order – again, you could add many shots before like 0510, or in between like 1010, 1015, 1020.
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I agree with Arvid,
please always make sure your shotnames (and asset names for that matter) are unique.
It will save you lots of trouble later.
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We do the same, but do note that having underscores in entity names may be problematic, if you rely on parsing file paths. Better use a dash instead.
I encountered this problem a few years ago. Aiming for simplicity, I ended up taking another route and allowing shots from different sequences to have the same name, further simplifying the naming convention. To avoid ambiguity in the publish window, I grouped each shot with its parent sequence.
In the image, you can see a publish window with 3 publishes, 1 for an asset and 2 for a shot (I’ve just realised that they are not properly grouped, but it’s working nevertheless)
Usually we don’t publish to two different sequences at once, but it’s just a matter building the group using the sequence + the shot name. I’m doing this right now! haha.
