Output recipe file and folder naming
I have several different output recipes - a regular one that creates a JPG at full size, one that produces a JPG with 1000 px longest edge, and another that produces a JPG 50 per cent of full size.
I had been putting the reduced size ones, if I used those recipes, into subfolders of my output folder, called 1000 px and 50 per cent. However, I set those up some time ago and wanted to change them slightly, so I have some questions.
(1) Can I get C1 to just give me a different name for the file with each recipe, but put them all in the same Output folder? Typically I use file names of the format 15-07-13-0123 (the date, with year first, plus a 4 digit counter.) Can I get the recipes to give me, say 15-07-13-0123.jpg for the full size one and 15-07-13-0123 50 pc.jpg for the 50 per cent one? If I change the name with the 50 per cent recipe selected, it seems to affect the naming for the full size recipe too.
(2) In the File tab of the process recipe there are fields both for sub name and sub folder. If I put "50 pc" in the subfolder field, that creates a sub folder called 50 pc and puts the output for that recipe in there. But if I put "50 pc" in the sub name field, that does not seem to add "50 pc" to the file name which I had imagined it might. What are the intended uses of the sub name and sub folder fields?
Ian
I had been putting the reduced size ones, if I used those recipes, into subfolders of my output folder, called 1000 px and 50 per cent. However, I set those up some time ago and wanted to change them slightly, so I have some questions.
(1) Can I get C1 to just give me a different name for the file with each recipe, but put them all in the same Output folder? Typically I use file names of the format 15-07-13-0123 (the date, with year first, plus a 4 digit counter.) Can I get the recipes to give me, say 15-07-13-0123.jpg for the full size one and 15-07-13-0123 50 pc.jpg for the 50 per cent one? If I change the name with the 50 per cent recipe selected, it seems to affect the naming for the full size recipe too.
(2) In the File tab of the process recipe there are fields both for sub name and sub folder. If I put "50 pc" in the subfolder field, that creates a sub folder called 50 pc and puts the output for that recipe in there. But if I put "50 pc" in the sub name field, that does not seem to add "50 pc" to the file name which I had imagined it might. What are the intended uses of the sub name and sub folder fields?
Ian
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Ian,
Are you using the 8.3 naming tokens?
For point 2 I use the naming tokens to include "Sub Name" in the file name (and the folder to create a sub folder as you already do). Works fine.
I think the point 1 answer would be along similar lines but I'm not yet comfortable that I have fully appreciated what you want and what you see.
The Tokens question is pertinent there.
Grant0 -
Thanks for the reply, Grant.
I think that what I want is to put all output in the same folder (so differently from what I have been doing previously) but distinguish between sizes of output via the file name only. (Different subfolders were all very well, but this is on my MacBook Pro, and when I transfer stuff to my main iMac, it is too much of a complication to have different subfolders unless the output folders on both Macs have the same subfolders.)
I'll look into the naming tokens a bit more.
Ian0 -
Ian,
Sounds like multiple recipes, one for each output combination of size/resolution/whatever to provide the name component feed to the file name. All pointing to the same folder - although I would be tempted to have then all pointing a master folder and then use the sub-folder beneath that.
That is pretty much what I do but I might vary the sub folder name if output is for a specific purpose or person rather than generic. That's likely to be a one-off so entering the name on the fly is no big deal in my perception.
Grant0
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