TIP: removing web contact sheet counter
We recently had a little confusion with a client over the counter in the popup window on the web contact sheet. In our workflow images are renamed on import to YYYYMMDD_JOBNAME_001. The counter at the end is incremented by C1PRO . We then rely on that counter number when communicating with the client. Where the confusion came in is that the file name counter isn't always going to be sequential on the contact sheets when, for example, you remove bad or unwanted shots. Therefore in the resulting sheet image _005 could fall out of sync with the contact sheet counter "Image x of x".
Anyway to remove the confusion we edited the underlying javascript library that C1 is using. Just right click on the C1Pro application icon and choose "Show Package Contents". In the new finder window navigate to Contents->Resources->Web Contact Sheet->Translators->Default->scripts and open slimbox.js in a text editor of your choice. On line 16 you should see showCounter: true. Replace true with false and save the file. Next time you generate a contact sheet the counter will be gone. Because this file is inside the application package you'll have to redo this change every time you upgrade C1Pro. Either that or you can keep an altered copy of the file and replace it in the generated contact sheet or edit the file each time... but I prefer to not give myself the opportunity to forget that step.
If anyone at PhaseOne is listening for a feature request a checkbox in the contact sheet output dialog would be great!
Anyway to remove the confusion we edited the underlying javascript library that C1 is using. Just right click on the C1Pro application icon and choose "Show Package Contents". In the new finder window navigate to Contents->Resources->Web Contact Sheet->Translators->Default->scripts and open slimbox.js in a text editor of your choice. On line 16 you should see showCounter: true. Replace true with false and save the file. Next time you generate a contact sheet the counter will be gone. Because this file is inside the application package you'll have to redo this change every time you upgrade C1Pro. Either that or you can keep an altered copy of the file and replace it in the generated contact sheet or edit the file each time... but I prefer to not give myself the opportunity to forget that step.
If anyone at PhaseOne is listening for a feature request a checkbox in the contact sheet output dialog would be great!
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You are advised to address feature request directly to Phase One in a support ticket. 0 -
Wasn't meant as a formal feature request but if that's the recommended way of communicating ideas to phase one I'll keep in mind for the future. This workaround works fine for us for now... just thought I'd share in case it helps anyone else with a similar experience.
Thanks again Paul.0
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