Thanks for all the suggestions. I tested Automator and it worked for my simple renaming task. The downside is having to drag all the files into the window. There may be a more elegant way drilling into folders and subfolders but I haven't gone that deep.
The renaming worked fine with the smaller folders that just had a few textless elements but when I went to the main show folder with over 100,000 files to be renamed the dragging into automator went into spinning beachball mode. I tried relaunching desktop but that didn't seem to clear things and now I can't even drag a single file to the desktop from the dpx drive.
Perhaps such a large number of files overloaded some buffer memory or something. I have Avid running exporting another DPX output. Avid didn't seem to mind the desktop relaunch but I have to wait for Avid to finish to try a fresh restart. That probably won't happen today but I will definitely try it again after a restart.
---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <film35hd@...> wrote :
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@... [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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