Rename outside of C1
All,
I have a need to rename a bunch of images outside of my Capture One (v11) Session, which I know is something that shouldn't be done. Unfortunately, C1 isn't robust enough to do the batch renaming that I need to do. When I do rename them external to C1, how do I fix the issue(s) that will arise with C1, as I imagine that C1 won't see or recognize the renamed images.
Thanks!
I have a need to rename a bunch of images outside of my Capture One (v11) Session, which I know is something that shouldn't be done. Unfortunately, C1 isn't robust enough to do the batch renaming that I need to do. When I do rename them external to C1, how do I fix the issue(s) that will arise with C1, as I imagine that C1 won't see or recognize the renamed images.
Thanks!
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Why can't you do it in Capture One? What is the kind renaming you want to do.
Ian0 -
I would echo Ian3's question.
However is you are indeed using a session workflow then each folder with original files should have a "CaptureOne" sub-folder in which you will find a Cache folder and a Settingsxxx Folder.
You can ignore the Cache folder contents and discard them. They will be regenerated.
In the Settings folder you find the edits you have made and some other edit activity related files - for any layer masks or some of the other specialised image editing activities that C1 provides.
You will need to rename the .cos files and .comask files and, most likely, any of the others you may find but beyond those two files types for which the direct relation ship to the original image is fairly obvious, there can be other files that may be more troublesome.
For example if you use LCC adjustments based on some renamed files you may need to undertake some further amendment work.
HTH
Grant0 -
When I import my images, I name them "<date & time> - <camera image name> - <job name>". However, I hadn't changed the date & time back to local time, from my last trip, so all of the images have the wrong dates & times. I corrected the EXIF/Metadata to reflect the correct date & time. Now I need to use a wildcard to remove the date & time from the image name, so that I can add the corrected date & time to the images using a C1 token. If it were just a few images, I'd do them by hand, but it's about 2000 images, so that's not an option. 0 -
[quote="SFA" wrote:
However is you are indeed using a session workflow then each folder with original files should have a "CaptureOne" sub-folder in which you will find a Cache folder and a Settingsxxx Folder.
You can ignore the Cache folder contents and discard them. They will be regenerated.
In the Settings folder you find the edits you have made and some other edit activity related files - for any layer masks or some of the other specialised image editing activities that C1 provides.
You will need to rename the .cos files and .comask files and, most likely, any of the others you may find but beyond those two files types for which the direct relation ship to the original image is fairly obvious, there can be other files that may be more troublesome.
If I rename the files external to C1 as suggested above, do I need to do anything in particular in C1, to have it see & recognize the renamed files? I don't want to have duplicate images in my Session.0 -
The Batch rename tokens include multiple options for 'Image Date' and 'Image Time' as well as 'Original Filename' and you can manually enter in the Job Name. Since you already changed the Exif to reflect the correct date and times I don't see why this can't be done with in Capture One using the Batch Rename tool. 0 -
[quote="cdc" wrote:
The Batch rename tokens include multiple options for 'Image Date' and 'Image Time' as well as 'Original Filename' and you can manually enter in the Job Name. Since you already changed the Exif to reflect the correct date and times I don't see why this can't be done with in Capture One using the Batch Rename tool.
It is possible that "Original File Name" will not have a value.
In fact I suspect it is likely. That leaves only the existing name which of course is the modified name. Not much help, unfortunately.
However if a first pass rename could remove the incorrect date and time from the start of the name the token approach should work to add the revised D&T back.0 -
[quote="outdoorslover" wrote:
[quote="SFA" wrote:
However is you are indeed using a session workflow then each folder with original files should have a "CaptureOne" sub-folder in which you will find a Cache folder and a Settingsxxx Folder.
You can ignore the Cache folder contents and discard them. They will be regenerated.
In the Settings folder you find the edits you have made and some other edit activity related files - for any layer masks or some of the other specialised image editing activities that C1 provides.
You will need to rename the .cos files and .comask files and, most likely, any of the others you may find but beyond those two files types for which the direct relation ship to the original image is fairly obvious, there can be other files that may be more troublesome.
If I rename the files external to C1 as suggested above, do I need to do anything in particular in C1, to have it see & recognize the renamed files? I don't want to have duplicate images in my Session.
If you imported the files within the session folder structure but perhaps into subfolders then each folder containing original images will have the subfolder mentioned or the .cos and .comask files and those files will need to be renamed in line with the originals.
Once that is done I guess one option would be to forget about the existing session and create a new one, importing the renamed images and the existing edit files and then just trash the old session once the new one is prepared.
Or just point the new session at the existing folders and make them "favourites".
If all you have done so far is import the files then it would probably be easier to simply trash the session and re-import the originals - but then did you "fix" the dates and times in the EXIF of originals or the imported and renamed originals?
A thought. Are you planning to keep all 2000 images or will you be culling heavily? If culling it may be worth considering living with the current names and worrying about re-naming later.
Alternatively you may be able to come up with a way of removing the date and time string from the existing names using C1's Find and Replace batch rename facility (replace with nothing) then add a token rename to add on the revised EXIF dates and times. It may all depend on how the date and time string is formatted in the existing file name. Especially the time part.
Grant0 -
[quote="SFA" wrote:
[quote="cdc" wrote:
It is possible that "Original File Name" will not have a value.
In fact I suspect it is likely. That leaves only the existing name which of course is the modified name. Not much help, unfortunately.
Then manually recreate the original filenames by typing in the camera manufacture prefix/suffix before or after a 4 digit counter token. Or just live with this one project not having the original file name and go with a 4 digit counter token by itself instead of the original filename.0 -
[quote="cdc" wrote:
[quote="SFA" wrote:
[quote="cdc" wrote:
It is possible that "Original File Name" will not have a value.
In fact I suspect it is likely. That leaves only the existing name which of course is the modified name. Not much help, unfortunately.
Then manually recreate the original filenames by typing in the camera manufacture prefix/suffix before or after a 4 digit counter token. Or just live with this one project not having the original file name and go with a 4 digit counter token by itself instead of the original filename.
For one image perhaps but the OP is suggesting thousands. Maybe an Apple script could be used to extract from the current name and populate the "Original File Name" field? Not being an Apple person I can do no more than float that idea here.
Personally I would probably live with the names as they are - they are just names after all. However the OP may have some specific requirements that make that wrong for their needs.
If it was just a date problem it would probably be relatively simple rename to remove the date(s) and then replace with the token value(s) required. Should be quite predictable in most cases.
Times, however, could be trickier. They might need a bit of lateral advanced process planning depending on the format in which they are displayed.
Grant0 -
[quote="SFA" wrote:
[quote="cdc" wrote:
For one image perhaps but the OP is suggesting thousands. Maybe an Apple script could be used to extract from the current name and populate the "Original File Name" field? Not being an Apple person I can do no more than float that idea here.
So long as the files are in chronological order and they have not yet been culled, or if they can live with the existing files being named in chronological order as they are, this would work for thousands of images as well. Just set the Rename counter to the same number as the first file.0 -
I'm sure that I'm too late to help OP, but hopefully my suggestion will help anyone else that stumbles onto this thread like I did today. There may be something in this issue that I'm not fully understanding, but there is one obvious solution to me that I'm surprised was not mentioned. If OP really needed to rename files outside of capture, then the easiest way to avoid issues with the sidecar files is to first pack them as EIP in Capture. When the EIP files are renamed in Finder and then unpacked in Capture, all the sidecar filenames will match. Furthermore, since Capture is fully capable of handling EIP files, there's actually no need to unpack them at all.
Based on what OP is saying, the steps I'd take are:
1. Pack as EIP in CaptureOne
2. Truncate the filenames to remove the incorrect Date/Time information. I use a 3rd party application called "A Better Finder Renamer" for situations like this. It's "Truncate" and "Character Position and Ranges" functions are far better at removing text than what's available in Finder and Automator. ABFR probably wont be able to handle all 2000 files in one go, but I think it can take a couple hundred at a time without crashing.
3. Use CaptureOne's batch rename to add the correct date/time to the beginning of the filename with tokens: <image date><image name>0
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