• Adobe Media Encoder

  Avoiding accidental file overwriting when exporting image sequences

  Posted by Xavier Bonet on March 29, 2020 at 1:24 pm

  So last night (rather this morning at 6 a.m.) I finished working a project with a series of different Scenes. I sent them all to export in AME and finally went to bed to rest. But in my state of zombiness at this late hour, I sent two of the scenes to export to the same folder and same name (i.e. final-export-scene-1), which eventually meant the second export would overwrite at least part of the first export (thankfully, I was exporting TIFFs, so not all was lost).

  So my question is if there’s any way to configure AME so that when it encounters identical filenames it gives the new file being exported a unique name?

  Of course, as any program, if when you choose the name you want for the file(s) there’s already a file with the same name in the same location, it prompts you to confirm you want to overwrite. I’m not sure this happens when its an image sequence. I doubt it does because I doubt AME can contemplate that at some point there’ll be a “filename-1465.tif”, which is already in use in that location.

  Also, having it prompt you in the middle of an all-night render, which would simply result in pausing all your renders, wouldn’t be the best solution. Which is why I’m wondering if there’s any way of telling AME to simply go ahead and “make the decision” of adding, say, a “(2)” to the end of the filename, as a much better solution than overwriting.

  Thanks in advance for your input!

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  …So this is how I managed to bungle it up today.

  Xavier Bonet replied 6 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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