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How to choose 1 out of 14 or so images for 4000 burst shots?
Oops- tried to take a time lapse but the shutter was set on burst (40fps), so every time it took a picture it took about 14 pics in bursts.... The camera took around 3000 or so shots on this burst setting, how can I take out a picture every 14 pics or the shots automatically? Is there any
"picker" software, mac or pc, that will take 1 out of 14 images repeatedly automatically????
thanks for helping me fix my dumb mistakes- again ;-)
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Best Answer 9 years ago
Put the files all in one folder, set the view to small icons, then adjust the width of the window so there are 14 files in each row, then all you have to do is select one columb, copy and paste.
Answer 9 years ago
will try :) got 50 files of 1000 images each to unzip into one file first though
9 years ago
Except that most digital cameras use DOS-style filenames, with a single numerical field. My Canon, for example, uses IMG_nnnn.JPG. So I could have used a sed pipe to capture the numerical part of each filename, and done a modulo-14 calc (num % 14) to choose the right targets. But that seems too much of a special-case for my taste.
9 years ago
great idea, but im not exactly a code guru.... what would I *try* to write it in(I have xcode installed but have used it little)
Answer 9 years ago
You're on a Mac, then? It's easy! You could write a simple shell script (what I would do), or you could hone your code guru skills and write it in Perl.
Here's a really crappy script (Sean, do not give me grief about using CSH!) that would get the job done. Copy the script below to a file called "oneIn14". At the Terminal prompt, type
chmod +x oneIn14
to make it executable. Run it from the prompt, specifying the input and output directories you want to use.Answer 9 years ago
thanks so much for your help, but I am going to have to go with The Skinnerz... its a really simple solution but it works mostly :) its a bit choppy when I tried it, but not bad enough to not work... thanks so much for your help though!!
Answer 9 years ago
:-D If you only need to do this once, then The Skinnerz's method is definitely the easiest!
9 years ago
If they are all in one directory, you could trivially write a script to do it for you. Loop through with a counter, each time i%14 == 0, copy or move that file to another directory.