This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Batch to 72 dpi

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Batch to 72 dpi

That was great. Thanks for help and the tutorial. I recommend this video to others if you are not familiar with creating actions. Everything worked as illustrated, but in my particular case Photoshop threw the error "Sorry I could not process the following files" which is apparently not all that uncommon with Image Processor.

I tried some troubleshooting but I discovered that for this particular task, XNViewMP is actually easier so I'm using it to solve my immediate problem.

Cheers,

tod

On Aug 14, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Michael Hancock mhancockeditor@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Tod -

If you're not familiar with Photoshop Actions I made a quick walkthrough/tutorial. I'm using Photoshop CC2014, but it should be pretty much the same in previous versions.

https://vimeo.com/103440366

Michael

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Michael Hancock <mhancockeditor@gmail.com> wrote:
Set up an action in Photoshop.

The shortcuts to record are CMD+SHIFT+i, set the DPI to 72, deselect "Resample", hit OK, and save.

You should be able to batch all of your images using that one action.

Michael

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:56 AM, hoplist@hillmanncarr.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Now that I've discovered that Avid Pan and Zoom wants all images to be 72dpi, I'm looking for a batch conversion method.

I've found lots of ways to batch resize, but none of these allow me to change dpi only. In theory I can do this with Automater recording, but I've found such scripts to be clumsy and unreliable without putting in great effort.

Any suggestions? Has anyone written a reliable Automator routine to do this?

I figure this is the place to ask because I can't think of any other possible reason to want to change dpi only. ;(

Cheers,
tod

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.