Renaming on import

David Grandy

• April 28, 2019 19:40

Hi,

I've been practicing importing images into Capture One 12 using Sessions. When I get to the Import Images dialog box it offers many options including renaming. I just want to use my images current file name as I use Photo Mechanic for importing, selecting and renaming. My problem is that I don't seem able to do that. I have tried to select "Original Filename" from the tokens, but that creates a filename that literally reads EmptyName XXXX.cr2, and puts EmptyName plus a number on every imported image.

If I re-name them say using text like "Soccer" and then a four digit sequential number then it works fine, but I'd like to choose that not have it forced upon me.


So what have I missed?

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • April 28, 2019 20:02

  

  The token you want is “image nameâ€.
  
  Ian

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  David Grandy

  • April 29, 2019 01:03

  Thanks very much. That works well. Having said that it doesn't make much sense to me that this is the way it's done. I mean wouldn't "Original Name" make more sense? In any case thanks again as I move on ... 😄

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  SFA

  • April 29, 2019 08:40

  [quote="PhaseoneUser10228" wrote:
  Thanks very much. That works well. Having said that it doesn't make much sense to me that this is the way it's done. I mean wouldn't "Original Name" make more sense? In any case thanks again as I move on ... 😄

  
  
  I think 'Original Name' is a specific IPTC field related to Getty Images Metadata.
  
  Useful for those who work with the Getty Images Photo Library.
  
  Potentially confusing to those who do not.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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  OddS.

  • April 30, 2019 20:33

  [quote="PhaseoneUser10228" wrote:
  ...I just want to use my images current file name as I use Photo Mechanic for importing, selecting and renaming.

  
  
  Why do C1 import to a session if you already ingest image files with Photo Mechanic (PM)?
  
  Getting image files from removable media (like a card in a card reader) to a specific folder on disk with renaming and more done on the fly is PM territory, C1 import to sessions is a waste of time if you have PM.
  
  If you have a working session in C1, try PM ingest to the session's Capture folder. Open the session and see the result. C1 gracefully adopts image files and xmp sidecar files put there by PM.
  
  If you don't have a working session, you would still know the path to where the Session-name folder would reside on disk if you created the session Sesion-name in C1. Try starting with a PM ingest to path\Session-name\Capture, creating path\Session-name\Capture on the fly. Then use C1 to create Session-name in path. You now have a new session Session-name with image files in Session-name\Capture, no C1 import involved at all.

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