Re: [Avid-L2] Avid limits .dpx files to 64 character names?

 

I've found it very reliable.  Nice things it does is you can save a "function" that you do all the time, like trimming the the 7 numbers to 4.  Or a section of a name that you change all the time, etc.  So instead of reseting the software each time you just drop the files on the droplet and it goes.  Also, you can do multistep renaming all at one time.

But yeah, it does cost $20.

Jay

On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Mark Spano cutandcover@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

This is interesting - have you ever had a crash in the middle of a file rename? That's usually like a few seconds, even for thousands of files. I'm curious.

BTW I use R-Name - free and simple.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:20 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions.  While I personally have never used this type of software I can see how these programs might be more user friendly than Automator, but I haven't used it either.

In the broad sense given the number of individual dpx files for an hour show is quite large.  What would happen if the renaming software burped in the middle of the process.  DPX is an image sequence with the file names ending in .00000000.dpx incrementing 1 for each new frame.  Avid lets you specify how many digits are in the number, I have not had any reason to change the number of digits over 7.  

So what would happen if somewhere in the middle of renaming things crashed.  I could be left without the ability to link to the DPX.  Is there some other metadata residing in the DPX files that would maintain the proper image order for playback even if the file names got messed up?  My experience with image sequences in Avid is the file names are critical.

After spending 10 or more hours exporting to DPX I'd hate to have to redo after a renaming crash.  I'm not saying renaming is a bad thing but it makes me a bit nervous given the volume of files and the possibility of not being able to undo a crash during the process.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <jay_mahavier@...> wrote :

you should buy A Better Finder Rename 

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/

also Big Mean Folder Machine 

http://www.publicspace.net/BigMeanFolderMachine/index.html

also ChronoSync

https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html

Jay

On Apr 11, 2018, at 7:41 PM, John Moore bigfish@...[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@...

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