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Renaming on import

sveto
Hi guys! I'm in the process of migrating from Lightroom to C1pro and am still learning the program.

Have a slight issue with the import rename function. In LR i used to import files named like _ABC1289.nef
and auto-rename them to myname-yymmdd-1289.nef. This has been my workflow for 10 years now.

I am quite shocked that this popular naming scheme (as suggested in the DAM workflow book by Peter Krogh) is not possible in C1pro. At least i can't find a way. Unless there is a way to manually script the format, i guess...

All i want is to use the 4 digit number of the file and append that (and only that) to my name and the date. Why is this not possible?

Maybe i'm missing something here, so any help is appreciated.
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  • SFA
    Batch rename (after import) has a "find and replace" mode.

    I tend to leave the full original file name. To some extent it helps to identify which camera the file came from.

    The file number, given that it recycles or may be reset in camera frequently, is not really very meaningful unless you are undertaking a full card backup before importing. Even that might make little sense other than as a short term backup security option. Backing up the named and imported files probably makes more sense?


    Grant
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  • sveto
    Well, i thought about instead of the file number just using a sequential 4 digit number starting with 0001. So _ABC1289.net gets renamed to myname-yymmdd-0001.nef, _ABC1290.net becomes myname-yymmdd-0002.nef etc.

    But how could i prevent, for example, importing one card from a morning shooting, and another card from an evening shooting from the same day, getting conflicts? Or importing from cards from two synced bodies? Is there a way to prevent C1 from resetting the digit counter when changing cards, or rebooting the computer?
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  • Ian Wilson
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    You should find that C1 does NOT reset the import counter until you reset it, so you should be OK importing from separate cards or after a restart. I use two different Nikons and regularly import a day's images from first one and then the other, and the import counter just picks up where it left off each time.

    Ian
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  • SFA
    [quote="sveto" wrote:


    But how could i prevent, for example, importing one card from a morning shooting, and another card from an evening shooting from the same day, getting conflicts? Or importing from cards from two synced bodies? Is there a way to prevent C1 from resetting the digit counter when changing cards, or rebooting the computer?


    That's actually an interesting potential use of the parts of the image file name you would prefer to remove.

    I'm not a Nikon user so I'm not sure what is available but some cameras (usually high end professional specification bodies) offer the option to set the file prefix to something of the user's choosing. In that way different cameras can be identified - even different bodies of the same model camera.

    For some people this will be really important. For others, like me, it is not a vital feature but is quite useful when working with images from different cameras offering a very easy way to identify which camera was used for a particular image or set of images.

    Sadly not all cameras offer such a facility.


    Grant
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  • Ian Wilson
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    [quote="SFA" wrote:

    I'm not a Nikon user so I'm not sure what is available but some cameras (usually high end professional specification bodies) offer the option to set the file prefix to something of the user's choosing. In that way different cameras can be identified - even different bodies of the same model camera.

    For some people this will be really important. For others, like me, it is not a vital feature but is quite useful when working with images from different cameras offering a very easy way to identify which camera was used for a particular image or set of images.

    Sadly not all cameras offer such a facility.


    Grant

    Both my Nikons (D7000 and D7200) do allow you to do that. Also the camera serial number is one of the tokens you can use in naming the file on import in Capture One.

    Ian
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  • sveto
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    You should find that C1 does NOT reset the import counter until you reset it, so you should be OK importing from separate cards or after a restart. I use two different Nikons and regularly import a day's images from first one and then the other, and the import counter just picks up where it left off each time.
    Ian


    Thanks, Ian. I didn't know that.


    [quote="SFA" wrote:

    That's actually an interesting potential use of the parts of the image file name you would prefer to remove.
    ...
    Grant


    You can always identify different bodies by the serial number embedded in the metadata.
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  • SFA
    [quote="sveto" wrote:
    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    You should find that C1 does NOT reset the import counter until you reset it, so you should be OK importing from separate cards or after a restart. I use two different Nikons and regularly import a day's images from first one and then the other, and the import counter just picks up where it left off each time.
    Ian


    Thanks, Ian. I didn't know that.


    [quote="SFA" wrote:

    That's actually an interesting potential use of the parts of the image file name you would prefer to remove.
    ...
    Grant


    You can always identify different bodies by the serial number embedded in the metadata.


    Indeed you can. If different body types that will also be reported in the metadata.

    But if the body ID is in the image name there is no need to go digging in the metadata.


    Grant
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