Custom templates for filenames of exported files

Hi all,

I’d like to be able to create a template for the names of exported files. Right now only the suffix can be defined. But I’d like to be able to have more influence on the naming. Here’s why:

I shoot with multiple camera bodies and store the files in a single directory (e.g. for a certain event because I want to see all images in the same context). The image order settings allow me to view the photos within PL5 in the order they were taken. However, when exporting the images, the names used are the ones given to them by the camera. That means that people who would like to view the images and don’t have software that orders by EXIF timestamps, aren’t able to see the images chronologically. However, if there were a way to add an enumerating prefix to the file like

#PREFIX__DxO.

where PREFIX could be an enumeration of the exported file you’d get an enumerated export:

001_DSC00001_DxO.jpg
002_DSC22001_DxO.jpg

This would greatly help with handling exported files. This way you could export files chronologically.

that’s what I do with TotalCommander (Win) before I hand them over to PL
( then keeping a consistent naming )

grafik
the vertical row (–> mouse pointer ) sorts both cams by time stamp


with many more options to rename & organize