I wrote a little program in J to read the files from the camera and renames the files as they are copied to the hard drive to include the date and time and otherwise ignore the file name assigned by the camera. Much more useful than an arbitrary number that cameras use. That way the date and time are not lost as with most camera utilities. I use bigfiles to do the copies as that way I don't have to worry about the size of the video files. Who cares if the file name wraps. The important information is in the time stamp.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Devon wrote: > > The problem with using this for sequencing is > > that sometimes the numbers roll over, e.g. 9998, 9999 is > > followed by 0, 1, 2 etc. What's a good way to detect this? > > One idea is to compare the ordering of the images by their filename vs the > ordering of images by their internal timestamp. > > -Dan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
