Image Mass Processing

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Image Mass Processing

Posted by Tyson Onaga on March 31, 2009 at 6:29 pm

I’m trying to use images in Vegas. I notice that my Olympus and Canon digitals are a 1.33 ratio (image width/image height). My Nikon images are 1.50 … which fits nicely with 720/480. Thus, I would need to:

[a] Crop 213 pixels from an Olympus pic (or ~106 from both top and bottom) to make the ratio 1.5
[b] Crop 234 pixels from a Canon pic (or ~117 from both top and bottom)

Also …

> Dynamic RAM Preview Max
> by John Rofrano on Mar 18, 2009 at 2:24:10 pm
> How big are the stills? The stills should be no more than 2x the project dimensions.

So, taking John’s advice, I would also need to reduce the image size (maintaining aspect ratio) to speed up Vegas’ rendering.

Thus, I need to batch-process a “list” of images where I can specify cropping (if needed) and image reduction. Images that I want to use Pan/Crop, I would either reduce (less) or not at all.

Is there a particular tool that you’re using to do this? I can brute-force this in MSPaint, but that’s not ideal.

Thanks in advance.

Tyson Onaga replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Douglas Spotted eagle
March 31, 2009 at 6:34 pm

Irfanview or Photoshop droplet/action

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John Rofrano
March 31, 2009 at 7:07 pm

> Irfanview or Photoshop droplet/action

Also, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, SnagIt, almost any image application comes with a batch mode these days. Infranview has the advantage of being free (unless you donate which you should if you use it all the time). 😉

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Tyson Onaga
April 1, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Thanks for the tips. I tried IrfanView and it seems to work well. I can resize (Nikon) or crop and resize (Oly or Canon) my images. I ran some render tests and it is noticeably faster (thanks John!), especially the one where I’ve got 4 images in 3D.

IrfanView can load/save the Conversion options as well as Load from an input text file. Is there a way to specify with each input file the Conversion option file I’d like to use? This would allow me to do one pass instead of multiple (one for Oly, Canon, then Nikon).

… or am I being too greedy? 😉

Thanks again.
Tyson Onaga
April 2, 2009 at 6:17 pm

Just FYI … I think I’ve figured this out with IrfanView. IV stores its settings (including those from Batch Conversion, Advanced) in:
C:\[someWindowsFolder]\i_view32.ini

I copied/renamed several versions of this file; one for Olympus, Canon, Nikon. To use it:
copy [theAppropriateVersion] C:\[someWindowsFolder]\i_view32.ini
i_view32.exe [sourceFile] /advancedbatch /convert=[destFile]
..repeat as needed..

and this will crop/resize sourceFile into destFile using the settings from [theAppropriateVersion].

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