Import Image Renaming Options?

Eldor

• 2015年06月29日 15:02

I've been using Chris Breeze's DownloaderPro for many years now and with many different cameras and I love the renaming options that it offers. I've gotten so used to it that I'm reluctant to change my naming styles to anything else. But alas, there is no DownloaderPro available on the Mac and so far I haven't been able to find anything else that even comes close to the power and flexibility. But I do have C1Pro and have been using it for many years, but not for importing images from a memory card.

I've just taken a look at the options and searched through the help files and it looks like C1Pro will not do what I want. In hopes that I'm missing something I ask for your help. Is there any way of doing this:

I have two each of Canon 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III which are automatically identified using DownloaderPro by camera serial number and the output file renaming gives me: 5da_1xxxx, 5db_2xxxx, 5dc_1xxx and 5dd_1xxxx. The xxxx represents the original image number from the camera. The digit after the underscore I manually increment whenever the image number reaches 9999.

I also have two Fujifilm X-E2's and for those the image renaming works by using a prefix of "xe2" followed by the forth character of the original filename, followed by "_0" and then the original four digits of the image number. That gives me names like "xe2a_01234" and "xe2b_01234". This is done by using substring functions. I will manually change the "_0" to "_1" when needed.

All of this happens automatically without any intervention on my part. I can take a memory card, stick it in my reader and offload images without any thought of which camera the images come from. And I often have a bunch of memory cards with images, coming from different cameras, and I want to make sure I don't overwrite images from one camera with those from another, and I want to be able to tell by the resulting filenames exactly which camera an image came from (in case of sensor dust for example, indicating that a particular camera needs to be cleaned).

Thanks for any help...

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 2015年07月03日 13:03

  Unless the unexpected happens, I do not expect another user will exactly figure out the options in your setup for renaming. CO 8 has extensive renaming options.
  
  What I suggest is that you try the program if you not already did and start from there. That will make it a lot easier for both of us to figure out what is best for you.
  
  BTW, I have used Downloader Pro from Breeze in the past and think it is an awesome program. I think CO8 is coming close and will match (almost) 100% of what you need.

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  OddS.

  • 2015年07月07日 23:46

  Eldor wrote:
  ...All of this happens automatically without any intervention on my part.

  
  
  Automatically? If I understand you correctly, you prefix a static most significant digit to build a unique five digit number from the four digits provided by the camera as part of the filename. When the camera filename counter wraps from 9999 to 0000 you manually need to increment that leading digit, right?
  
  You did ask the exact same question over at the Photo Mechanic forum and got an answer indicating that your renaming scheme will likely be possible using that software. You were asked to provide more detail/examples, but you just went silent.
  
  As far as I know, renaming in Capture One is token/variable based, but that is about it. You can concatenate tokens and static texts to build a string for a new filename.
  
  As far as I know, Capture One does not provide substring functionality for renaming. If your camera filename is DSC_1234.RAW, you need substring functionality to chop off DSC_ and keep the eight rightmost characters as in 1234.RAW. Prefixing that with a static _0 and manually incrementing the prefix to _1, _2 etc as your camera counter wraps every 10000 clicks, lets you build strings like _01234.RAW, _11234.RAW, _21234.RAW, _31234.RAW etc. That should work in just about any renaming system once you got the substring part worked out. Until someone chimes in and points to Capture One substring functionality, you may have to look elsewere to arrive at this intermediate result.
  
  As far as I know, Capture One does not provide token based table lookup or similar functionality for renaming. If you prepare a lookup table having one line per camera and put the serial number for each camera in the first column and put a corresponding prefix string like your 5da, 5db, 5dc,5dd, xe2a, xe2b etc in the second coulmn, a lookup function will be able to read the camera serial number from the file metadata and look up the prefix you want for that camera. From there it should be straight forward to arrive at the final result; filenames like 5dd_012345.RAW and xe2b_71234.RAW. Until someone chimes in and points to Capture One token based lookup functionality, you may have to look elsewere.
  
  I do not understand why you prefer a renaming scheme that requires manual intervention whenever a camera image counter wraps, but I may have misunderstood the renaming challenge you presented.

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