Hi Stephen,

This is a risky suggestion as I don't have Raid 0/1 (is one mirroring and the other striping?). You may try rebooting with the power uplugged to each drive in turn to see if that shows up anything. Cool features are good but only if they work.

Regards,

David

Hi,

When something goes into my archive it's because I don't expect it to change. Subsequent modifications would result in a derivative file. DNG's in the archive can change after I've burnt to DVD but that's ok. I plan on having another backup to disk to handle that.

David

Dan,


gives The Dam Book website

David

http://www.febooti.com/products/filetweak/ lets me change the created and modified date of the file.

Hi Peter,

See my comment in the previous reply for how I name my video files. yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss for video differs from yyyymmdd_nnnn_DWB for stills. Bringing all this data together can highlight problems in either approach 

I may have been ambigious in my earlier comments. Does the Date Created annotation contain a time component. I cannot see that it does. This differs from the IPTC spec from what I can tell. It may be I have the format wrong.

David

Thanks Ian. Let me help you if I can by expanding with what I know.


This may or may not actually be the case. I spent days trying to get iMatch to put information into the IPTC date and time created fields. It wasn't the software which was acting perfectly. Rather the problem was the underlying Regional date and time setting for windows. I had to change these to get the format right.


Yes, and there is Date Created annotation field also which appears in the info panel. The Date Finder choses an explicitly set Date Created value. If not present the EXIF date created. If not present the File creation date.


Agreed to a point. Most of the time it is and I back that up by setting the Date Created annotation explicitly.


Digital video downloaded off tape to AVI using SCLive (www.scenalyzer.com) has EXIF information which matches the date from the camera. Each take or clip is split at the start/stop point and helps me to identify the correct sequencing of video if needed. Because the timestamp is recorded on the tape as well, if a clip should become damaged and this has happened once or twice due to DVD failure, then I can go directly to the correct point in the tape and recapture it to AVI.

At the moment I'm storing the date and time in yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss format in the title.

David

Thinking out loud as I'm wont to do.

The main fear I have is losing the sequencing of the video clips. For those coming from the digital camera the current filename tells me where on the tape the original clip is. If I store the original name in the title for video clips then I at least have that sequencing information. That may do.

David

Thanks Peter,

That confirms what I've noticed.

Not sure if modified is going to work. Newer digital video is ok, older video has the wrong value. If everything had an exif date that could be changed/corrected it would be easy.

I wonder if it's worth create a custom field named "strict sequence" and a small script to iterate through the photos of a day an set the value incrementally. That would work for the day, but not for the month, where the sequence would be larger, nor for the year.

More thinking to do I guess. Date Created doesn't take a time option does it?

David

Hi All,

Am I correct in understanding that if you select a grouping (date, location, category set etc.) then the thumbnail view sorts by default into the order that you drag the files (like a light table) and that only by applying a sort option from the menu does it re-order. Then, when you reselect (say the next day) it's back in the manually sorted order again?

My brain's fried at the end of the week and I keep confusing myself around the issue. I'd like to be able to splice photos and video avi's in the right order. Can't use EXIF date as the video doesn't have it, nor can I use Date Capture because I can't specify a time.

Thanks,

David

Thanks Peter.

We're a long way from being professional. My main interest in photography is to provide a record of my family's history. DWB = David and Wendy Buchan by the way.

David

After working through 2.5 DVD's of photos I've decided to change my naming convention. What worked well for digital cameras doesn't integrate so well as I move back into the legacy collection of scans and even video clips.

The question is, "Does it matter?". Forgive me if I think aloud here. It helps to have a conversation about it, even if it ends up just being me.

I've been naming using three initials, date and then sequence number. So photos from myself and my wife are DWB_20070128_1485.ext or whatever the camera is up to. Integrating photos from other family members in the collection provides filenames such as RCC_20070128_3722.ext. In a file name order these don't line up in date order because the name is sorted first. DWB comes before RCC no matter what the date.

The alternative is to switch things around and have 20070128_1485_DCB.ext and 20070128_3722_RCC.ext. This will put things in date order. Not minute or hour order. For that I need to reorganise and then resequence. This is the two cameras problem mentioned in Peter's book and elsewhere on the forums. A problem with resequencing is that I may get the photos later. Nowadays it doesn't matter so much (again thinking aloud) because each digital camera will have a datestamp and so I can sort within iView on the capture date (whew! got that one sorted).

My video clips are currently named clip_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.ext. These won't sort as well by filename, and older clips don't have exif file data in them. Newer clips do, but I'm not yet sure if iView reads it (most apps don't expect to see it in the avi file). If I rename these to 20070128_3722_DCB.avi I have the option to sequence them with the photos to give a truer order of the day.

What it comes down to is the filename sequence reflecting the time sequence. Irrespective of what the values actually are, a later shot should follow an earlier shot and vice-versa. EXIF is a boon and solves the problem but not for legacy data. I believe I've been hanging onto the 4-digit camera sequence number as too important. Though Peter and others suggest searching on the sequence number I never have, so for me it doesn't make as much sense to have them completely unique.

Next steps:
1. Rename all the files I've just renamed to be in yyyymmdd_nnnn_USR.ext order. Worth doing to give me consistency from the start.
2. Keep cataloging.

Thanks for listening,

David

Hi Shawn,

Some excellent photos there. Thanks for sharing.

Might I suggest that you either have fewer photos on the front page or inform the browser via width and height attributes what the size of the photos were. Each time I read the text it was bumped downwards as the earlier photos came online.

Cheers,

David

I'm working from memory. It's possible that's just what I read into it. Try chapter 3.

David

Derek,

I'd love to hear the result of your latest test when you're done. What worked and what didn't?

David

Hi John,

I can second Momento. Excellent quaility, simple to use software and they made the Christmas delivery as promised.

David