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Author Topic: Re-numbering RAWs and their filters  (Read 12183 times)
tonygamble
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« on: November 15, 2014, 11:08:11 AM »

I am photographing a theatre 'street scene' over a period of five evenings.

The pageant follows a scripted order. I keep rephotographing it as the audience, who are also in costume, changes every evening.

I'd like to compile my five evenings's shots into the same order as the script. The story will flow, the actors will be the same but the viewers/audience will differ.

Is there a way I can do this in Qimage so I get all the images into the order I want and then renumber them so I get a set of jpgs, with sequential filenames. I need the jpgs to have a logic to the filenames so I can put them into a web folder.

All ideas greatfully accepted. If any replies today, Saturday, please excuse my non reply as I will be away from home doing the final days/evenings shoot.

Tony
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 10:37:20 AM »

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Is there a way I can do this in Qimage so I get all the images into the order I want and then renumber them so I get a set of jpgs, with sequential filenames. I need the jpgs to have a logic to the filenames so I can put them into a web folder.


Hi Tony,
If you right click on thimbs, you get 2 rename choices; individual and automatic.
Auro is very versatile and if you have a whold folder, worth taking the time to set all the parameters. If it's just a few, then type in the  names/numbers you want, and Q can sort numerically or alphabetically.


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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 12:02:13 PM »

Thanks Fred,

How do I get the images into the order I want them?

Tony
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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2014, 12:18:11 PM »

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How do I get the images into the order I want them?

It should be automatic.
When Q sorts thumbs, it will do so alphabetically. Therefore, if you numbered your images PARTY 1, Part 2, Party 3, It will sort it just that way.
See screen snap

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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2014, 01:00:19 PM »

My fault Fred. I was not clear enough.

I was hoping there was a way I could put the thumbnails into a custom order in the browser window.

Let's say I have got 100 shots to re-name. OK I find the first the first one to rename and I call it Party 1. I find the second and call it Party 2.

Remember I'll be working in a window that it five frames across and twenty frames deep. I get as far as Party 15 and then suddenly spot one I missed that should actually be Party 5 - but I already have a Party 5. Bother - I say - biting my tongue. But it'll be quite hard to trawl through all 100 shots in 20 rows without making a mistake.

I'm wondering if I can use the 'rating' as a way of getting the pix into groups?

EDIT. That seems to be the solution. To use the Ratings to force the thumbs into groups - probably with just a rating of One which is removed once that group has been renamed. I am not sure how one recovers from an error - when I think of a way I'll post it.

Tony
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« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2014, 01:41:20 PM »

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How do I get the images into the order I want them?

Sure Tony,
First of all, you can hold the Ctrl Key and select The thumbs you want to include.
Then when you right mouse and select rename, it will rename, and bring up the second one for renaming.
But you can use rate as a tool for that.

Method 2 My choice since you have many images.
I would select the images that I wish to rename, (Perhaps 50) and place them in the ON DECK screen.
That isolates the ones you want from the ones you do not want to rename.
Next, I select all, and Auto Rename.
Set the auto rename similar to the attached screen snap, and OK.
Whoosh! All sequentially renamed.

Let's say it is a very rare occurrence, but Someone Unnamed made a mistake and wants to replace one number with a different image.

All you do is delete that image using Right mouse, and delete.
The place the new image in the folder, and run Auto Rename again.
It will find the missing number and use the new image and rename it to the same number the removed image had.

Method 3
Yes you can sort by Ratings,,, and you know you can change ratings and the sort will change too.
The filenames will stay as they were originally.
Just right mouse the thumb and select the rating.

To sort by rating, click EDIT, Sort Thumbs, and select by ratings/.

(My computer died. So I am using Marilyn's (with her permission))  So forgive delays in my replies. I have to beg keyboard time.~!

Fred

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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2014, 01:45:27 PM »

Thanks Fred.

I was writing my EDIT whilst you were posting your reply.

I'll read it again in a mo'.

I see the way forward.

Many thanks.

Tony
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« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2014, 01:56:36 PM »

Fred,

Can you point me to a URL where On Deck is explained, please.

Tony
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« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2014, 02:05:50 PM »

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Can you point me to a URL where On Deck is explained, please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c7QN4-sQoE&feature=youtu.be&hd=1


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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2014, 02:47:52 PM »

Thanks Fred.

Tony
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2014, 12:24:05 AM »

Hi Tony,
When I have that ordering problem I solve it by numbering in tens, ie Party10, Party20, Party30 etc. When I find one that should have gone in earlier instead of calling it 50, I call it 25 so it goes between 20 and 30. So I can insert it in the right order. Later on number 70 might go in as 28 or  23, still leaving space for pictures above or below 25. Finally I'll renumber the whole lot.
You might find that useful.
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2014, 06:31:54 AM »

Nice idea, John.

Simple but effective.

Tony
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2014, 10:08:48 AM »

Hi Tony,
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Is there a way I can do this in Qimage so I get all the images into the order I want and then renumber them so I get a set of jpgs, with sequential filenames. I need the jpgs to have a logic to the file names so I can put them into a web folder.
There's no direct way to order in a custom sequence - it's the same as what is available in Windows Explorer; ie. by date, name etc.
The way I might do this is as follows:
Create a set of sub-folders so each represents a section of the script. You can do this in QU as you copy images.
Copy the appropriate images into each sub-folder using QU.
Auto Rename in each folder as follows:
Section 1 (0001), Section 1 (0002) ... etc.
Section 2 (0001), Section 1 (0002) ... etc.
 .... etc.
If you wanted to change the order of a few images in one folder, that could be done by renaming individually and hopefully not too tedious with a sub set.
This will separate each section of the script and if combined in 1 folder again in name sequence they would be as required.

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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2014, 10:15:56 AM »

That's a good idea Terry.

In BreezeBrowser you can drag the thumbnails into any order on the thumbnail grid page. I am not sure how he does it but it means you can shuffle things around and then hit a rename sequentially button. But naturally I can't use that as it will not rename the filter files.

But your suggestion and the other one that came in last night will both do the trick using QU.

Thanks again.

Tony
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