Chris Hunter
(K=25634) - Comment Date 6/20/2006
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I think the easiest would be a batch rename using the automation feature of PS7. You can set PS to open all files in a specific folder, resize them, and then resave them to another folder with set names, such as the couples last name, starting with 1 and ending w/ the last photo.
I would just make sure to rename the originals as well first, saving them as full-res .tiffs with the same name as the lo-res .jpgs supplied to the clients, for easy re-printing later after proofing is done. Again, you could do a batch to complete this.
The two camera part is a little more difficult, but I'm sure there is a way to do it so that all images taken appear in correct order.
It would probably be something like having them both start of 0001.jpg at the begginning of the day. Then they will be in order, and stored into into folders like "JaneDoeWedding_C1" "JaneDoeWedding_C2". You will just have to make sure there is one different vairble to the naming of one of the camera's photos, to distinguish between the two sets of filenames. Again, this could be done w/ a batch re-name, simply adding a 'B' to the end of one cameras filenames.
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Ash
(K=9427) - Comment Date 6/21/2006
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Matt,
I have an idea for you, I don't have two cameras, but I think that this would work. Part of the picture file should be a time created. It seems to me that if you put all of the pictures into one folder and used the sort by date funcion, all of the pictures would be in sequential order. I think that this would work as long as your cameras have their clocks synchronized. As for renaming them, I don't have an easy way to do this.
I hope that this works. Let me know.
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Matt Davis
(K=3935) - Comment Date 6/21/2006
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Ashley,
Hey - that's exactly the solution. Sometimes it seems so hard to see the wood for the trees as this is such a simple solution. My cameras are roughly synchronised (within a min or 2 I ecpect) so now I have th eimages sorted i'll hopefully just run a numbering batch in PS or other application which hopefully just takes the images in their current order in teh folder - i.e. sorted by date/time.
Thanks again soooooooo much for your response you've really helped me out here.
Matt
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Chris Hunter
(K=25634) - Comment Date 6/21/2006
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This will work for SEEING the order in which the images were taken, but when you use the batch function in PS it will use the file name as a basis for what order the files are saved in (ie: 001.jpg, 001a.jpg, 002.jpg, 002a.jpg).
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Matt Davis
(K=3935) - Comment Date 7/1/2006
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Just for all your info - if interested, i found teh solution right under my nose.
Zoom Browser EX (which came with a camera I bought - I think) hs just the thing. Yuo can sort photo order by shooting date & time then run them through using the same programme to rename - hence all sorted now.
Ta
Matt
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Chris Hunter
(K=25634) - Comment Date 7/6/2006
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Hey Matt thanks, i know this is useful information,
Chris
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Michael Kanemoto
(K=22115) - Comment Date 7/10/2006
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Matt:
Mac or PC or Other?
Reason I ask is that you can probably write a DOS script to go off the date time stamp of the file, but you better have the date and time scynched across both cameras.
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Michael Kanemoto
(K=22115) - Comment Date 7/13/2006
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If you have a PC, and do not have the software described above, there is another program that renames any file. It is called the Bulk Rename Utility or BRU. You can search for it and download it. It will rename files using search and replace and date formats, all the bells and whistles if you really want precision.
I just used it and it took about 5 - 10 minutes to start it up, play with it, and read the documentation on the finer points of customizing date stamps.
Since I use a Nikon and always want to tweak the filename to my own style this worked well to rename the RAW files before translation.
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BRU Example
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Michael Kanemoto
(K=22115) - Comment Date 7/13/2006
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Sorry - posting better example showing different names mixed with shooting (creation) dates.
Notice I also have a mixure of files starting with "_DSC". This is a great feature of Nikon where manual settings put the underscore first and auto settings put the underscore after the "DSC_". Really wonderful for those of us who work by date. Grrrr...
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BRU Example Again
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