Injest Renaming Options?

[Eldor]

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...

[Kirk Baker]

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 take it that DL Pro has a way to assign a name to a serial number?  If so, PM has that as well via Code Replacement.  One can look up a serial number and have it replace with a name of one's choosing.

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.

Photo Mechanic also has the ability to extract substrings from variable expansions.

I'd need more concrete examples of your cameras' serial numbers and original filename examples, but I'm pretty certain that PM's Ingest should be able to duplicate your naming scheme(s).

-Kirk