Your own personal script for renaming DV-AVI files.

[RJ Johnston]

Not that there aren't enough utilities to rename DV-AVI files to names based on the datecode that's embedded in them, but after years of struggling, I finally have vbscript for doing same that you are welcome to look at, modify, do with as you please. I've only tested the script on my computer on files that came from my JVC GR-500U camcorder, captured in Premiere Elements over firewire. I also tried it on a few that were captured by Sony and Pinnacle products.

What I've been doing is dragging and dropping DV-AVI files onto the script's icon, which is on my desktop. There's some limit to how many files you can drop, so you can also drag and drop a folder that contains DV-AVI files.

If you drag and drop one file on the icon, you will get a prompt and you will have to type y and then click Okay before the file is renamed. If you drag and drop more than one file at a time or drag and drop a folder, there is no warning. Files will be renamed if there is a datecode embedded in the DV-AVI file. The datecode from the first frame encountered is used for naming the files.

If you know VBScript, you should be able to modify the script so you can rename the files to whatever naming convention you want. But as the script is now, the naming format is DVC yyyy-mm-dd hhmmss nnnn.avi.

Download the zip file, then extract the script from it. Drag files to the scripts icon and be amazed.

http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-719

[Chuck Engels]

Very nice utility Rob, thank you so much for sharing it with us

[Ron]

Yeah, that's pretty darn slick. Although some A/V programs may balk at that (mine did not)

I could probably create an exe that can do that --- if I only had more time in a day......

[alaindresse]

Hi,

Is this script still available ?

Regards,
Alain

[RJ Johnston]

Some of my scripts have been deleted, evidently the moderators -- or Adobe -- don't want them in the gallary.

[Chuck Engels]

It's still there, the link works fine for me.
No one is deleting anything RJ, honest.

[RJ Johnston]

The link didn't work for me. Which makes me think that you need to be logged in as a subscriber to access it. I'm a subscriber, but I'm not logged in. I could make it accessible to anyone. What do you think, Chuck?

[RJ Johnston]

Even after I logged in as a subscriber, I couldn't access my own files that were marked as "Members Only." So I changed the folder attribute so now they can be accessed, by even me.

[Chuck Engels]

Everything is good then?

[RJ Johnston]

Seems to be okay now.

[Ron]

Even after I logged in as a subscriber, I couldn't access my own files that were marked as "Members Only." So I changed the folder attribute so now they can be accessed, by even me.

And exactly where is this? There's nothing "Member's Only" in the Gallery

[RJ Johnston]

Ron, I have a folder named MembersOnly that has the "Members of Registered group" view setting. I had some files in the MembersOnly folder that couldn't be seen.

[Ron]

OK, that particular setting would just be registered users of the forum, meaning if they weren't logged in to the forum, they couldn't see the folder. Has absolutely nothing to do with our "subscribers". Just making that clear.

So in essence, if they were able to post to this topic, they were logged in and should be able to see the folder (because you can't post unless you're logged in).

[RJ Johnston]

Well, we were logged in, but we couldn't see the folder. So something isn't right.