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| hereshegoes |
 Posted: May 21 2007, 05:30 AM |
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I'm in the process of making a video with images. It will have between 800 and 900 images. Every image I'm using will start with the word "Portraits" but I'm not sure how to number them yet.
If I just number them Portraits1 and continue through Portraits900, does it mean I'm going to have to rename them all if I want to add or remove some images from the line?
Is there a way to number them that would allow me to insert or remove some without renaming everything before or after the changes? |
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| DarrellS |
| Posted: May 21 2007, 07:58 AM |
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With that many pictures, I would name them starting with at least 001 and maybe 0001.
You can use a program like Irfanview to batch rename and move these files into separate folders. It's not a good idea to keep over 200 files in one folder. Besides, you would have to put breaks in between or Virtualdub would load every file at once.
Example: 001 thru 184, 186 thru 302, 304 thru 496 etc...
Folders...
D:\Portraits\
Portraits01
Portraits02
Portraits03
Portraits04
Portraits05
If you use Irfanview in thumbnail view, you can see all the pictures in a folder. |
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| Belial |
| Posted: May 21 2007, 05:18 PM |
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Your best bet,do as darrell said.
Adding images is easy,just tag a letter after the number(0010,0010a),and it'll stay in sequence,then use a renamer to let it rename the files in order.It'll turn 0010a to 0011 and shift the rest one up.I use ReNamer from www.den4b.com ,cause it allows for rules when naming,and you can preview the rename before changing.Removing images is easier,cause you don't need to name anything before,just delete,and let the app rename the files in order.Actually,you can use as many files as you want in a folder,it just slows the down,if you generate thousands of pics with thumbs.After it's done you should be fine,unless you got an old computer.
renamer rules(I always check "skip extension" in each rule):
1)remove - * ,check interpret symbols
2)insert - portraits,check prefix
3)serialize - suffix,check pad and set to 4 |
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| hereshegoes |
| Posted: May 23 2007, 03:43 AM |
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I stumbled onto a simple way to renumber my images in the exact order that I wanted so thought I would post that info here.
When I highlighted a line of images in the folder instead of just the one image I wanted to right-click and do rename on, I noticed that it renamed them all but added numbers in paretheses.
So I made a folder and put the images in the folder in the order that I wanted them in the video. After they were all in there I clicked on the Edit option in the folder header and clicked on Select All.
That highlighted them all and then I pointed to the first image in the folder and right-clicked and chose rename. In this case they all started with the word Portraits and numbers were out of sequence in the folder. After typing in the new name of the first image (which I chose to rename portraitsrevised), I clicked Enter on the keyboard and a few seconds later all the images were named portraitsrevised and all but the first one had a number in parentheses afer it. For example portraitsrevised (1), etc. When I tried to load the first file, only the first file went into VirtualDub any others in the folder that I tried loaded every image after it in sequence so I just had to rename the first file to portraitsrevised (0) and then when I loaded it they all went in.
This also works if you just want to rename a sequence of files within a folder from 0 to whatever but I had more than I could scroll to highlight at one time so I made a new folder to do it.
Suggest that when you go to rename that you give the first image a number like 100 or more in case you want to later add images to the start. I just finished one that I named starting with 200 and I ended up going back and adding enough images to the start that the start number became 46. |
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