John,I saw that others responded to you with three options, so I put off checking on Beyond Compare until now. It seems from its manual that its file rename is limited and I bet the other programs may be more robust in this regard.
Still, I like the program to compare files with checksums, and alerting you to any "bit" that may be different. Embedded below (and also separately attached) is the screen grab of the RENAME function.
Best,-keoni.
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On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:42:26 PM PDT, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
When exporting a DPX file the network has a specific file naming convention they want applied. Avid takes the sequence name and makes it the text for the individual DPX files. The format becomes "Sequence Title".0000000.dpx (without the "s)
So here in lies the rub. Avid will only take the first 64 characters of the sequence name and the rest gets truncated. I believe there is a way to use Automator on a Mac to batch rename but that's not something we've done before. The resulting DPX file works fine it just doesn't have all the requested text on the individual files.
I will start googling but is there some sort of 64 character limit to file naming in the DPX spec? I doubt there is because I wouldn't think the network would have made this request if there was. Some days I just feel so guilty for having all the fun. John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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