Scanning Photo Numbers??

memory maker wrote on 1/31/2006, 10:04 AM

When I scan photos into my Vegas 5, is there anyway to control the numbering system? For example they automatically begin with "Image 1" but then when it gets to 11, the one labeled 11 gets placed in the media bin next to the one labeled 1, so they are no longer in physical order in which they were scanned. I go through and rename them all but that is quite time consuming. Can I set the numbering system ahead of time for scanned photos? Thanks to anyone who can help!

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johnmeyer wrote on 1/31/2006, 11:19 AM

You can use any one of dozens of file renaming programs. Windows itself can do this (if you select a bunch of files and then press F2 to rename, it will create a numbered sequence). I use ACDSee for simple sequence number renaming, and a simple shareware program from this guy File Rename for the more complex renaming.

Make sure you pad the numbers with leading zeros when you rename. As you have found, if you don't do this, Windows will sort files so that "File1" is next to "File11" rather than next to "File2". Instead, number your files: "File001" "File002" and so on. I find using three digits is enough for most of my purposes (I seldom have more than a thousand pictures in a project).

Steve Mann wrote on 1/31/2006, 2:18 PM

I just did a timelapse project with over 30,000 images.

Whew.

I reset the camera counter each day because it only has four digits in the file naming protocol, then rendered each day's sequence into an AVI file. When the shooting ended, I just brought the AVIs into a project file.