The Romanian Dream » chronological order http://theromaniandream.com/blog the green green grass Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:09:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pictures from Multiple Cameras in Chronological Order http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/12/27/picture-order-multiple-cameras/ http://theromaniandream.com/blog/2009/12/27/picture-order-multiple-cameras/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:37:36 +0000 Mircea http://theromaniandream.com/blog/?p=588
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    • ]]>     Small annoyance I’ve run into: Having 2 photo cameras on a field trip, taking pictures in parallel with them, needing to put pictures in a chronological order (scenario is applicable, for example, in case you go on a trip with some friends and everybody takes pictures using personal camera. You want to create a web gallery with pictures for everyone to look at).

    So you have pictures from 2 or more cameras and need to order them.

    Solution is pretty straightforward if you’re not afraid to use a command prompt:

    Step 1) Download exiftool from here: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

    Step 2) Copy all photos in a folder (if you have name collisions just rename some of files – in the end they will have a time stamp as a file name so it doesn’t really matter)

    Step 3) Copy exiftool.exe to the same folder

    Step 4) Open a command prompt in the folder and issue the following command:

    exiftool “-FileName<CreateDate” -d %%Y%%m%%d_%%H%%M%%S%%%%-c.%%%%e *.JPG

    The rest is magic :) Files are renamed based on the file date/time inside the exif tag associated with each of the pictures. Now by sorting on the file name you can have the pictures in the order that they were taken.

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