I often render my timelapses out of Lightroom with the preset "filename-image sequence" which lists the original filename and a -1, -2, -3 etc. at the end of each file. This has always worked with Vegas' "open image sequence" until recently. Now the box remains greyed out.
Magix, please allow that box to be checked any time we select more than one image, so there is a workaround even if Vegas fails to detect that there is a sequence.
When you say "recently" are you referring to a change in a version of Vegas, or does your version not act like it used to?
Render out a sequence with only 4 or 5 images and upload to a fileshare site.
David and I would like to have a look.
Here's the entire sequence, grab as many as you need to test.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gbPuPXXC-kxzP9UD9_Kbleh16kpp6ziT
The name format is incorrect for Vegas to recognize as a sequence. You need to delete the hyphen and the last number. Then it works.
You can test it just by renaming the first two. Delete the -2 and the -3 and it works.
That's the way lightroom exports it by default, and I'm not about to go renaming up to tens of thousands of individual images for a timelapse. Vegas worked fine with it until recently. I guess that functionality is broken for now, unless I can find some renaming tool that will batch rename files in sequence.
Did it stop working on a version change? Or Windows update? If it worked before, it seems it should still work unless something obvious changed. There are apps that will rename using certain parameters. But even without the hyphen, the sequence numbers are incorrect.(not sequential) so it still wouldn't work. Can you change the naming conventions in Lightroom? Have all of your previous files had numbers as names to begin with?
That's hard to isolate, it could have stopped with a Vegas or Lightroom update, I can't verify where the change took place as I don't remember exactly when I started noticing it, but it wasn't that long ago.
I believe there are apps that will rename with sequential numbers based on creation dates/times. I used to use one but it has been a long time since I needed it. Good luck though but that seems to be the problem, either the fact that the files are numbered as well as a number after the hypen, or maybe the hypen itself. but like I said, if you take out the hyphen, it is no longer a sequential number.
My timelapse app/lightroom plugin LRTimelapse supports ProRes export (with Rec2020 color space too, so HDR friendly), so I think I'm just going to use it from now on.
That's the way lightroom exports it by default, and I'm not about to go renaming up to tens of thousands of individual images for a timelapse. Vegas worked fine with it until recently. I guess that functionality is broken for now, unless I can find some renaming tool that will batch rename files in sequence.
None of Vegas Pro 10, 13, 14 or 15 will recognise these files as an image sequence unless they are renamed. And the problem is not just the first file, which has a very different filename from the others.
Bulk Rename Utility can easily truncate the necessary digits from the filenames to make this work. It can probably just rename the whole lot from 001.tif too. Essential tool to have on hand!
Thanks!
Thanks Nick... you just saved me hours of work! Opened a legacy HDV project yesterday with mismatched numbering and couldn't get Bridge to rename/renumber properly. Bulk Rename Utility worked perfectly. Uncanny timing!