File Naming for Tethered Shooting
Hi all,
I have been using various versions of Capture one intermittently over the last few years and am desperately keen to switch to Capture One for ALL my workflow tasks. I do however have one issue with my file naming convention which I seem unable to solve.
At present I'm shooting tethered with a 1ds MkII using Eos Capture and Lightroom 2 auto import folder which is a relatively slow process.
For my file naming on capture and import I have set up a naming convention which I have been using for a number of years now and makes file identification and retrieval extremely easy.
Each file is given a base name (my surname) at the start, followed by a reverse (yymmdd) date extracted from the file metadata, and then finally the consecutive 4 digit number given to the file by my camera. The final file name looks something like this;
Linnet_091104_3456 and is created automatically on import.
With this naming convention no 2 files ever have the same name, myself and my clients find it easy to instantly identify the date of capture, and no matter how many images I take the file numbers always run consecutively giving me a clean and easy filing system that makes sense.
By the way, I also use this same naming convention when importing to LR straight from my CF cards. It couldn't be any easier.
So after all that, my question is this, am I able to achieve the same automated naming convention from within Capture One?
I currently have Capture One Pro 4.8.3 but on the occasions that I decided to use it, I have ended up with a file naming mess. It seems that there is no way to utilise the metadata in the capture file for file naming. Each session has to be manually named or the session name is used, I tried to mimic the 4 digit consecutive number at the end by using the 4 digit suffix option but found that it resets at the start of each session, so I kept ending up with multiple files with the same names + numbers and an extra single digit suffix at the end depending on how many files had the same name. It was just plain messy.
Alternately, I tried renaming the files captured with Capture 1 on my laptop when I re-imported to main Lightroom catalog in the studio but found that the original 4 digit number allocated by the camera was gone from the metadata.
Can anyone help out with this dilemma??? This is the only thing that is holding me back from embracing C1 wholeheartedly.
Thanking you in advance for any assistance that may be offered.
cheers,
Daniel Linnet
http://www.linnetfoto.com
I have been using various versions of Capture one intermittently over the last few years and am desperately keen to switch to Capture One for ALL my workflow tasks. I do however have one issue with my file naming convention which I seem unable to solve.
At present I'm shooting tethered with a 1ds MkII using Eos Capture and Lightroom 2 auto import folder which is a relatively slow process.
For my file naming on capture and import I have set up a naming convention which I have been using for a number of years now and makes file identification and retrieval extremely easy.
Each file is given a base name (my surname) at the start, followed by a reverse (yymmdd) date extracted from the file metadata, and then finally the consecutive 4 digit number given to the file by my camera. The final file name looks something like this;
Linnet_091104_3456 and is created automatically on import.
With this naming convention no 2 files ever have the same name, myself and my clients find it easy to instantly identify the date of capture, and no matter how many images I take the file numbers always run consecutively giving me a clean and easy filing system that makes sense.
By the way, I also use this same naming convention when importing to LR straight from my CF cards. It couldn't be any easier.
So after all that, my question is this, am I able to achieve the same automated naming convention from within Capture One?
I currently have Capture One Pro 4.8.3 but on the occasions that I decided to use it, I have ended up with a file naming mess. It seems that there is no way to utilise the metadata in the capture file for file naming. Each session has to be manually named or the session name is used, I tried to mimic the 4 digit consecutive number at the end by using the 4 digit suffix option but found that it resets at the start of each session, so I kept ending up with multiple files with the same names + numbers and an extra single digit suffix at the end depending on how many files had the same name. It was just plain messy.
Alternately, I tried renaming the files captured with Capture 1 on my laptop when I re-imported to main Lightroom catalog in the studio but found that the original 4 digit number allocated by the camera was gone from the metadata.
Can anyone help out with this dilemma??? This is the only thing that is holding me back from embracing C1 wholeheartedly.
Thanking you in advance for any assistance that may be offered.
cheers,
Daniel Linnet
http://www.linnetfoto.com
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The short answer is no, at least not automated how you describe. The only way to implement your naming structure (and this is top of my head as I don't have a 1dsMkII to hand to test it) is to manually include the date as part of the naming structure in "next naming tab" within the Capture tab. The camera counter is the only bit of retrievable info from the file meta data when creating naming conventions in C1 (at this point in time.)
In capture tab, choose next capture naming, name and camera counter. in "name" put: "Linnet_091105_" (effectively job name)
The camera number (file name in the case of canon) will be added to the job name.
Same theory for card import.0 -
Thanks for that James, I'll persevere with it for a bit longer. 0
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