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yanouli

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Registered: 2017-02-10

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Sort pictures by hour taken and rename after

Hello

i want to realize a timelapse
i have taken 600 000 pictures in 6 months, day and night
i need to rename only all the pictures in the day between for eample 10h00min and 15h00min
i see i can class it with date exif but not with hour and date
it is possible to do that?

thanks a lot

den4b

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Re: Sort pictures by hour taken and rename after

There several different things you can do to achieve it, but it's hard to say which fits best without knowing how exactly you are planning to rename those files. Can you provide some before and after examples?

Generally speaking, you can use EXIF date to file images hierarchically based on the individual components of date and time (day, hour, minute, etc).

You can change the default date-time format in the Settings to something like "yyyy-mm-dd\hh\nn\", basically, grouping images by date and then sub-grouping by hour and then by minute. Now you just have to insert EXIF date meta tag as a prefix to your file names. The directory structure is created automatically during a renaming operation.

So, if you have an image "image1234.jpg" taken on 2017-02-14 09:30:00, it will be renamed into directory "2017-02-14\09\30\image1234.jpg".

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yanouli

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Re: Sort pictures by hour taken and rename after

Thanks for your quick answer
how can i insert EXIF date meta tag as a prefix to my file names?
y  try to make a rule but un order to do this but i can't do it....
thanks to help me

den4b

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Re: Sort pictures by hour taken and rename after

how can i insert EXIF date meta tag as a prefix to my file names?

Add an Insert rule, select Prefix option, click Insert Meta Tag button, select EXIF_Date tag.

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yanouli

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Re: Sort pictures by hour taken and rename after

tkanks!