I view, You view, We all scream for iView
I'm in the most daunting phase of the labor on "Outside In" - taking all the raw images, resizing, cropping, cleaning, "copyright friendly-ing them", color correcting, patterning... Then, I have to take each "subject" e.g. "Britney" and organized them into an custom image sequence.
Organizing them into image sequence was going to require weeks of labor until someone suggested a great tool. An image sequence is simply a series of still images named image001, image002, image003 etc. that are loaded into program that play image sequences back as video files.
The challenge I had is using normal file tools on PC (or Mac or Linux for that matter), the order files listed is determined by date or size or name or other file property. I need to arrange them, like photographs on a table, in whatever order I wanted to name them. I already had normal batch renaming tools but they require you to already have them in sequence and don't allow just an arbitrary or custom sort order.
I googled in vain for a tool (because it's hard to describe this feature) and it turns out, very few programs do this. However, on the excellent AE List, Trish Meyer (Adobe After Effects Guru extraordinaire), suggested a program called iView Multimedia. $50 for it will save me weeks of work. (they have a really fancy Pro version for more, but I didn't need it).
This program rocks - useful for all sorts of things including ordering image sequences. Fast and stable for manipulating thousand of images and available for Mac & Windows. I've seen all sorts of tools (I downloaded about 15 trial versions of various things before finding iView) and this beats them all hands down for managing images. Check it out, especially if you are digital photographer.
Organizing them into image sequence was going to require weeks of labor until someone suggested a great tool. An image sequence is simply a series of still images named image001, image002, image003 etc. that are loaded into program that play image sequences back as video files.
The challenge I had is using normal file tools on PC (or Mac or Linux for that matter), the order files listed is determined by date or size or name or other file property. I need to arrange them, like photographs on a table, in whatever order I wanted to name them. I already had normal batch renaming tools but they require you to already have them in sequence and don't allow just an arbitrary or custom sort order.
I googled in vain for a tool (because it's hard to describe this feature) and it turns out, very few programs do this. However, on the excellent AE List, Trish Meyer (Adobe After Effects Guru extraordinaire), suggested a program called iView Multimedia. $50 for it will save me weeks of work. (they have a really fancy Pro version for more, but I didn't need it).
This program rocks - useful for all sorts of things including ordering image sequences. Fast and stable for manipulating thousand of images and available for Mac & Windows. I've seen all sorts of tools (I downloaded about 15 trial versions of various things before finding iView) and this beats them all hands down for managing images. Check it out, especially if you are digital photographer.
