Claire CJS
20081211 - Chris H visits - IMG_0024 - Carolyn (standing), Clint (sitting) - (by Chris)
Chris arrived right as Clint was in the middle of determining the kHz sample rate of various AVI files of X-Men:TAS (1990s) commercials. I'm using my "allfiles mv" script, which creates a text file that is the names of all files in a folder. It also runs them through a 1600-line perl script that executes hundreds of regular expression-driven (and file inspection-driven) rename rules, and then has the user edit the text file. Often with many files in the same set, you can use the macro function of your text file to do a complex renaming with one keypress (or less, if you hold it down for multiple files) per file. You just can't beat that efficiency when it's happening. But I never figured out how to get the kHz audio sample rate myself. And WinXP can't figure it out either -- only Win2K. So I get to either violate my naming conventions forAVI files (I don't do this for MKV files nowadays), or open every file up and look and see. Fun. Anyway, after editing the filenames, the allfiles mv script compares the 2 text files, and automatically renames them. It gets a little hairy if you accidentally use the same filename twice, but you can fix it in another window. This script has saved me 100s of hours. Or, to look at it another way: In equal time, my files are superiorly named. Of course a lot of this gets ruined when you deal with the filename limit on burned DVDs...
sitting, standing.
Freezepop shirt, TV, couch, desk, monitor.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
December 11, 2008.
Pic by Chris Hanners.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Chris H came to visit. We had made tentative plans to hang out on Thursday. Chris ended up drinking all day and had to take a cab to our house because he was so drunk. He had just bought a camera that day, so he was taking a lot of pictures. It was a good thing, because he didn't remember most of the evening, and the pictures helped fill in the blanks.
20081211 - Chris H visits - IMG_0024 - Carolyn (standing), Clint (sitting) - (by Chris)
Chris arrived right as Clint was in the middle of determining the kHz sample rate of various AVI files of X-Men:TAS (1990s) commercials. I'm using my "allfiles mv" script, which creates a text file that is the names of all files in a folder. It also runs them through a 1600-line perl script that executes hundreds of regular expression-driven (and file inspection-driven) rename rules, and then has the user edit the text file. Often with many files in the same set, you can use the macro function of your text file to do a complex renaming with one keypress (or less, if you hold it down for multiple files) per file. You just can't beat that efficiency when it's happening. But I never figured out how to get the kHz audio sample rate myself. And WinXP can't figure it out either -- only Win2K. So I get to either violate my naming conventions forAVI files (I don't do this for MKV files nowadays), or open every file up and look and see. Fun. Anyway, after editing the filenames, the allfiles mv script compares the 2 text files, and automatically renames them. It gets a little hairy if you accidentally use the same filename twice, but you can fix it in another window. This script has saved me 100s of hours. Or, to look at it another way: In equal time, my files are superiorly named. Of course a lot of this gets ruined when you deal with the filename limit on burned DVDs...
sitting, standing.
Freezepop shirt, TV, couch, desk, monitor.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
December 11, 2008.
Pic by Chris Hanners.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Chris H came to visit. We had made tentative plans to hang out on Thursday. Chris ended up drinking all day and had to take a cab to our house because he was so drunk. He had just bought a camera that day, so he was taking a lot of pictures. It was a good thing, because he didn't remember most of the evening, and the pictures helped fill in the blanks.