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Scripts..Is this possible?

snooks
Is it possible select some images, then run a script to...

-Rename files (with a pre-saved setting), then
-Add a metatdate template (inc rating - so I know which ones have been processed), then
-Sync out, then
-Convert images (adding a watermark and saving them to a new folder)
-Update the folder where the new images are

All in one go?

If so how? :0)
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  • James Johnson
    Snooks,

    This isn't outside the realm of possibility, but a lot of care would have to be taken to verify things during the process. Except for the adding of a watermark, I had some scripts I ran on MacOSX during the Microsoft Expression era that did some very similar things.

    1. Clean up filenames
    Remove double spaces, remove illegal punctuation, apply an incremental number to files as necessary to prevent overwriting of duplicates, and some other stuff I don't remember. 😉

    2. I've applied individual keywords, dates, and IPTC fields to groups of images using scripts, but I've never tried to apply a 'template' per se. I suppose you could hard code the data programmatically, but then that's not very elegant when you need to change things later. ☹️

    3. I think I would prefer to handle the sync process by hand. You don't do it all that often if you're working on large numbers of files, and unless you want to hard code a specific location, you'll have more flexibility of where you want to sync the files to. I guess you could prompt for a location at the proper time, but then you'd have to watch and wait instead of moving on.

    4. The watermarking thing has me puzzled. I don't remember that there's a way to do this within MediaPro. I suppose you could use a helper app fairly easily... I'd have to research that a bit.

    5. Are you intending to then update the original catalog to reflect where the new images are located?

    I might possibly be able to leverage my existing code to make most of this stuff happen, but I'm not sure when I'd have time! ☹️ Can you tell me what metadata you wanted to apply? Not all fields are accessible via scripting.

    Best wishes,

    JIm.

    http://about.me/pixelsrzen
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