I'm primarily a PC computer user but I would like to be able to use my MacBook Air for image processing while travelling. What has kept me from doing this so far is that I have not found an image "ingestor" that will allow renaming images the way I am used to doing on the PC. On the PC I use Chris Breeze's DownLoader Pro application and it works perfectly for my needs. I really want to maintain the naming conventions I have been using for more than 15 years now.
Can you please help me by letting me know if Photo Mechanic will do the renaming as I want?
I have two each of Canon 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III which are automatically identified by camera serial number and the output file renaming gives me: 5da_1xxxx, 5db_2xxxx, 5dc_1xxx and 5dd_1xxxx. The xxxx represents the original image number from the camera. The digit after the underscore I manually increment whenever the image number reaches 9999.
I also have two Fujifilm X-E2's and for those the image renaming works by using a prefix of "xe2" followed by the forth character of the original filename, followed by "_0" and then the original four digits of the image number. That gives me names like "xe2a_01234" and "xe2b_01234". This is done by using substring functions.
All of this happens automatically without any intervention on my part. I can take a memory card, stick it in my reader and offload images without any thought of which camera the cards/images come from.
If PM won't do this, can any of you suggest another product?
Thanks very much...