- Joined
- Oct 22, 2022
- Messages
- 203
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 14.2
- Operating System
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
For many years, I renamed images in Lightroom 5.7.1 after I imported them, copying from a memory card to date-based folders. When I first purchased a camera (Canon EOS R3) that wasn't supported by that old version of Lightroom, I wrote a PowerShell script to copy images from a memory card to my hard disk. It uses exiftool to organize them into the same date-based folders and rename them using the same naming scheme I used in Lightroom. It also does some other things, including making two backup copies. I then used Adobe's DNG converter to convert the unsupported images into DNG files that I could then import into Lightroom without moving them (since they were already in the desired folders).
Eventually, I decided the conversion to DNG was unwieldy and wasted disk space, so upgrade to Lightroom Classic which support the R3 files. I continued, however, using the PowerShell script to ingest images, and it has been working well for photos and images from my Canon EOS R3 ever since.
I recently purchased an R5 Mark II, and while the script still works fine for images, videos are a different story. Instead of naming video files similar to images, but with the suffix .mp3, like the R3 did, the R5II use a more complicated file naming scheme for videos (described here), so my renaming scheme isn't working well for these video files, and I'm trying to decide how to fix it. As part of that investigation, I was thinking about preserving the R5II's original video file names somewhere, since then encode a bunch of information that I might find useful someday. I looked at the "Original Filename" field in LrC's metadata for some R5II image files and discovered that it was the current filename (the one produced by exiftool). I then went back and looked at some R3 image files and saw the same thing. Next I looked at image files from my older camera where the files were renamed in Lightroom 5.7.1, going back to images from 2008, and in all cases, the "File Name" and "Original Filename" are identical.
So my questions are:
Eventually, I decided the conversion to DNG was unwieldy and wasted disk space, so upgrade to Lightroom Classic which support the R3 files. I continued, however, using the PowerShell script to ingest images, and it has been working well for photos and images from my Canon EOS R3 ever since.
I recently purchased an R5 Mark II, and while the script still works fine for images, videos are a different story. Instead of naming video files similar to images, but with the suffix .mp3, like the R3 did, the R5II use a more complicated file naming scheme for videos (described here), so my renaming scheme isn't working well for these video files, and I'm trying to decide how to fix it. As part of that investigation, I was thinking about preserving the R5II's original video file names somewhere, since then encode a bunch of information that I might find useful someday. I looked at the "Original Filename" field in LrC's metadata for some R5II image files and discovered that it was the current filename (the one produced by exiftool). I then went back and looked at some R3 image files and saw the same thing. Next I looked at image files from my older camera where the files were renamed in Lightroom 5.7.1, going back to images from 2008, and in all cases, the "File Name" and "Original Filename" are identical.
So my questions are:
- Does LrC save the original file name when renaming on import or using Library>Rename Photo... ?
- When, if ever, does it save the original file name in the "Original Filename" metadata field or some other metadata field?