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OT: Renaming folder items with folder name
Posted by strypes
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OT: Renaming folder items with folder name July 23, 2010 08:24AM |
Okay, I have a drive full of image sequences that I need to convert to QT files. I can import them and batch the image sequences in AE, but the catch is that the name of the clips are on the folder instead of the file. In Automator, I can do a find and replace by copying the folder name and replacing "frame" to the file name, and run it for all files within a folder. But I have some 200 folders, and renaming them folder by folder will drive me nuts. Does anyone know of any automator actions that can copy the name of the folder and replace a specified text with the name of its folder?
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Re: OT: Renaming folder items with folder name July 25, 2010 05:44AM |
Okay, I got that done manually. How do you do it with Quickkeys? I couldn't find a way to get that done purely by keystrokes, without having a script somewhere.
What happened, was they converted a bunch of cine files into tiff sequences, but I got this instead:
"<clip name>/frame_0001" as opposed to "<clip name>_0001"
It's workable, just that when you have a few hundred clips, the renaming will take you about an hour or two.
Batch converting all of that into QT movies isn't a problem. In AE you need to select the first file, to import an image sequence, and the clip will take on the name of the file. You can rename the clip in the output module, but still that is a lot of manual clicking.
With Applescripts, I've only gotten so far:
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving droppedFolders
repeat with aFolder in droppedFolders
tell application "Finder" to set theSequence to (get first file of aFolder as alias)
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open image sequence theSequence frames per second 25
set nameSequence to (theSequence as string) & ".mov"
tell document 1
with timeout of 500 seconds
save in file nameSequence
end timeout
close
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
That is a folder action that will save the file as a reference QT movie based on the name of the first clip, and it is batchable. I'm trying to see how to insert an option to save the file to a specific location, add a few renaming options and to save that thing as a droplet.
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What happened, was they converted a bunch of cine files into tiff sequences, but I got this instead:
"<clip name>/frame_0001" as opposed to "<clip name>_0001"
It's workable, just that when you have a few hundred clips, the renaming will take you about an hour or two.
Batch converting all of that into QT movies isn't a problem. In AE you need to select the first file, to import an image sequence, and the clip will take on the name of the file. You can rename the clip in the output module, but still that is a lot of manual clicking.
With Applescripts, I've only gotten so far:
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving droppedFolders
repeat with aFolder in droppedFolders
tell application "Finder" to set theSequence to (get first file of aFolder as alias)
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open image sequence theSequence frames per second 25
set nameSequence to (theSequence as string) & ".mov"
tell document 1
with timeout of 500 seconds
save in file nameSequence
end timeout
close
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
That is a folder action that will save the file as a reference QT movie based on the name of the first clip, and it is batchable. I'm trying to see how to insert an option to save the file to a specific location, add a few renaming options and to save that thing as a droplet.
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Re: OT: Renaming folder items with folder name July 25, 2010 10:29AM |
Thanks, Andreas. I haven't had a good excuse to get into AppleScripts, and aside from creating the "hello, world" application, I am still trying to figure my way around.
Okay, I kinda see what you are doing- you create some sort of list, then get QT to open those files and apply information from those lists.
When I tried to compile your script, I got an "expected end of line, but found identifier" on this line for "sequence":
I'm hoping to get the reference movies to a specific directory location so I can batch convert them for editing, then link them up for the conform.
>Is it a file path someFolder:frame_0001 or is it a fileName.
Pretty what Nick said earlier. I was getting the name of the shots in the folder instead of on the images, so I couldn't get AE to render out QT movies.
In getting my hands wet on this job, I realized that there are quite some issues dealing with image sequences in FCP- you can't easily conform back to the image sequences for finishing, partly because FCP doesn't ingest image sequences natively, and also they don't necessarily have timecodes (that also means audio sync is done manually). Apple's solution to ingesting dpx and cineon files is to go through Color, but knowing how Color stores and names render files, it may make for a very problematic online. That is not to mention you need Color 1.5, because earlier versions of Color don't register reel names, so you can't export a reliable EDL from Color.
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Okay, I kinda see what you are doing- you create some sort of list, then get QT to open those files and apply information from those lists.
When I tried to compile your script, I got an "expected end of line, but found identifier" on this line for "sequence":
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set seqMovie to open image sequence seqItemPath frames per second theFPS
I'm hoping to get the reference movies to a specific directory location so I can batch convert them for editing, then link them up for the conform.
>Is it a file path someFolder:frame_0001 or is it a fileName.
Pretty what Nick said earlier. I was getting the name of the shots in the folder instead of on the images, so I couldn't get AE to render out QT movies.
In getting my hands wet on this job, I realized that there are quite some issues dealing with image sequences in FCP- you can't easily conform back to the image sequences for finishing, partly because FCP doesn't ingest image sequences natively, and also they don't necessarily have timecodes (that also means audio sync is done manually). Apple's solution to ingesting dpx and cineon files is to go through Color, but knowing how Color stores and names render files, it may make for a very problematic online. That is not to mention you need Color 1.5, because earlier versions of Color don't register reel names, so you can't export a reliable EDL from Color.
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Re: OT: Renaming folder items with folder name July 25, 2010 11:40AM |
I'm on FCP7, leopard. At work these days, I'm on FCP 6, tiger.
Thanks for the app, Andreas. Don't know what happened earlier,but specifying "Quicktime 7" means it ends up asking you which app that is. I sorta tweaked it a bit so I can specify save location, but it's saving one directory level higher than its supposed to.
EDIT: Okay. I read what Andreas wrote about 10.5 and earlier.
Okay, I tried to add a display dialog to alter the frame rate, and I ended up getting 15 fps. This could be a very useful tool, if we can allow options to save as self contained, and to toggle between naming by file name or folder name. But my every touch in Applescript seems to freak it out.
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Thanks for the app, Andreas. Don't know what happened earlier,
EDIT: Okay. I read what Andreas wrote about 10.5 and earlier.
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property theFPS : "25"
property fileExtensionList : {"tif", "png", "tga", "jpg"}
property folderList : {}
property fileList : {}
property qtPlayerList : {}
set theVol to choose folder with prompt "Choose directory of image sequences"
set savefolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose save location, but will save one level higher"
tell application "Finder"
set tempFolderList to every folder of theVol
set my folderList to {}
repeat with theItem in tempFolderList
set thePath to theItem as string
set end of my folderList to thePath
end repeat
end tell
set my qtPlayerList to {}
repeat with theFolder in my folderList
set my fileList to list folder theFolder without invisibles
repeat with theFile in my fileList
set theFilePath to (theFolder & theFile) as string
set nameExtension to (name extension of (info for alias theFilePath))
if nameExtension is in fileExtensionList then
set end of my qtPlayerList to theFilePath
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end repeat
set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
tell application "QuickTime Player" -- if you're running 10.5 or less it should be "QuickTime Player"
close every document without saving
repeat with seqItemPath in my qtPlayerList
set pathList to every text item of seqItemPath
set savePath to savefolder
set saveName to (item -2 of pathList) & ".mov" as string -- that's the name of the folder
set savePath to {savePath, saveName} as string
set seqMovie to open image sequence seqItemPath frames per second theFPS
save seqMovie in savePath
close document 1
end repeat
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters
Okay, I tried to add a display dialog to alter the frame rate, and I ended up getting 15 fps. This could be a very useful tool, if we can allow options to save as self contained, and to toggle between naming by file name or folder name. But my every touch in Applescript seems to freak it out.
www.strypesinpost.com
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