need help renaming my files, plz help

[Joelh085]

hello there, i need some assistance plz,

I currently photographed a wedding with my brothers as well. All in all, there were 3 cameras used. I want to make a disk just with all the negatives.

Lets say I want to combine all the pictures that were taken before the wedding ceremony into one disk.. The first image is named IMG_4730. Is there an easy way to rename all these files from 0001 to lets say 0500 using windows or another program?

[gcflora]

You can do it using Lightroom. Also try googling "batch rename files"

Hope that helps a little bit

[Joelh085]

thank you very much gcflora. Unfortunately i dont have lightroom right now, but googling "batch rename files" helped me out some, thanks again ;)

[tim]

Sort by date taken, rename the lot.

[Joelh085]

Sort by date taken, rename the lot.

First off thank you for replying tim ;)
hmmm the problem is for some reason is at least one of the camera is an hr behind from the rest.. and i cant seem to change the time, i can edit the "date taken" but not the time.. I guess what im currently doing is just arranging them by the hr taken manually. That is moving them according to time taken but just considering some of them is 1 hr behind. Its taking me a while right now but gotta keep on going. After they are all arranged in the time taken i will rename them by just right clicking and going to rename. I guess i have to put a prefix or something... I can't just rename them 0001 0002 and etc. I guess i will rename them like hotel, Hotel 2, Hotel 3 etc...

If anyone knows a better way than this, faster or more accurate.. then help would be appreciated ;)

edit: one of the cameras is off by 1hr and 7 min.. oof

[gravy graffix]

Down load lightroom trial and we can tell you how to do it really easy!!!

[Joelh085]

Down load lightroom trial and we can tell you how to do it really easy!!!
haha! sorry i already did! expired last year and im just waiting for my school to get some in stock so i can get it a good price on it:D

[tim]

First off thank you for replying tim ;)
hmmm the problem is for some reason is at least one of the camera is an hr behind from the rest.. and i cant seem to change the time, i can edit the "date taken" but not the time.. I guess what im currently doing is just arranging them by the hr taken manually. That is moving them according to time taken but just considering some of them is 1 hr behind. Its taking me a while right now but gotta keep on going. After they are all arranged in the time taken i will rename them by just right clicking and going to rename. I guess i have to put a prefix or something... I can't just rename them 0001 0002 and etc. I guess i will rename them like hotel, Hotel 2, Hotel 3 etc...

If anyone knows a better way than this, faster or more accurate.. then help would be appreciated ;)

edit: one of the cameras is off by 1hr and 7 min.. oof

That's why I synchronise all camera times before every wedding. I think "exiftools" can change the time/date of RAW files, and it can definitely change the time/date of jpegs.

[hawkeye60]

You can do it in Windows. Just select all, then right click the first one and rename it, the rest will all be named the same but with sequential numbering.

[tim]

You can do it in Windows. Just select all, then right click the first one and rename it, the rest will all be named the same but with sequential numbering.

That doesn't help much if you have three cameras and you want to have all the images for all cameras renumbered based on time.

[tim]

EXIFtools (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) suggests it supports Canon RAW files, but you'd have to try it to really find out.

[Joelh085]

wow thank you very much for all your time time, I really appreciate it. I dont know what else to say but im very thankful. I believe Im up to something with exiftools, i believe i can change the time for all of them. Im just trying to figure this out at the moment. Again, thank you. :D

[Sojwita]

I often use scripts in biterscripting to rename a large number of media files. If you have files IMG_*.JPG in folder C:/folder, you want to rename them starting at number 309 (just an arbitrary number, as example), use the following script.



# Script renamejpg.txt
cd "C:/folder"
var str list ; lf -n "IMG_*.JPG" > $list
var int count ; set $count=309
while ($list <> "")
do
var str file, newname ; lex "1" $list > $file
system rename ("\""+$file+"\"") ("\""+"IMG_"+makestr(int($count))+".JPG"+"\"")
set $count = $count + 1
done



This will rename all files to IMG_309.JPG, IMG_310.JPG, etc. (To try, save the script as C:/Scripts/renamejpg.txt, start biterscripting, enter the following command.

script "C:/Scripts/renamejpg.txt"


Of course, test first. Use correct path instead of "C:/folder". Download biterscripting http://www.biterscripting.com if you don't have it - it is a good tool to have in addition to everything else you have.)

Tell me more about your requirement.


Sojwita