I played with 1. a bit more using absolute paths and it works ok. It still does all languages but I can live with that.

Thanks.

a lot of movies come in the format; /folder messy name of movie/filename of movie with messy name.mkv (where mkv can be mp4,avi,etc as well) under that folder there is a ./subs folder which will have multiple subtitles something like; /subs/english.srt /subs/spanish.srt I want to be able to rename ...