get some inspiration from bulk rename
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 14:03
I just stumbled across http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Features.php which is a nice utility for prople not using Servant Salamander. I still prefer BatchRename plugin but miss some of the features of BRN. Most important to me are:
favorites / saved settings. would speed up recurring renames massively, especially for complex reg ex. Currently I store the required stuff in a text file - not very convienient...
Log activity to a text log file and allow to create from log an "Undo" batch file or (just opposite order) a "repeat" batch file.
Very nice to have is: Availability of EXIF dates & file modification dates and date shift operations to rename images in one go. Currently my workflow is as following:
1) copy images of all cameras to seperate folders (as XnView loads thumbnails which is slower on camera memory than on HDD)
2) shift the time of pic files (using a self-written tiny dumb util), so that the same time for one event is used in all picture files across all cameras (without this step, time zone differences and inaccuracy in time settings make slideshows a horror trip as one is jumping back and forward in time)
3) use xnview.com to prepend the date Y-m-d H-M-S to the file names, so all pics will be in correct time order
4) use BatchRename to do RegEx renamings
5) merge all folders
I imagine something like "$(EXIFDateTaken:-3m20s)" for "new name" field to perform directly on camera memory (as BatchRename does not require to read all thumbails) and at the same time doing the RegEx's. Then just move all to the joint dir on HDD. Done. IMHO this is WAY easier.
In case EXIF is too difficult to implement, DateModified would be sufficient as well - it is needed for movies, their tumbnails and picture-attached sounds anyway, as they do usually not carry EXIF infos.
favorites / saved settings. would speed up recurring renames massively, especially for complex reg ex. Currently I store the required stuff in a text file - not very convienient...
Log activity to a text log file and allow to create from log an "Undo" batch file or (just opposite order) a "repeat" batch file.
Very nice to have is: Availability of EXIF dates & file modification dates and date shift operations to rename images in one go. Currently my workflow is as following:
1) copy images of all cameras to seperate folders (as XnView loads thumbnails which is slower on camera memory than on HDD)
2) shift the time of pic files (using a self-written tiny dumb util), so that the same time for one event is used in all picture files across all cameras (without this step, time zone differences and inaccuracy in time settings make slideshows a horror trip as one is jumping back and forward in time)
3) use xnview.com to prepend the date Y-m-d H-M-S to the file names, so all pics will be in correct time order
4) use BatchRename to do RegEx renamings
5) merge all folders
I imagine something like "$(EXIFDateTaken:-3m20s)" for "new name" field to perform directly on camera memory (as BatchRename does not require to read all thumbails) and at the same time doing the RegEx's. Then just move all to the joint dir on HDD. Done. IMHO this is WAY easier.
In case EXIF is too difficult to implement, DateModified would be sufficient as well - it is needed for movies, their tumbnails and picture-attached sounds anyway, as they do usually not carry EXIF infos.