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Bought sns-hdr today and attempting my first After Effects render of the batch-rendered tiffs from sns-hdr. After Effects is misunderstanding the file order and the timelapse is flipping back and forth in the sequence. I presume this a known problem? How do I get around it? Thanks
Ian

Can you give examples of file names that have changed the order?

I can`t copy/paste all the file names but these are the first two:
B10_6601-HDR(3)
B11_6604-HDR(3)
and these the last two:
B1467009-HDR(3)
B1477012-HDR(3)
The rendered video starts 3/4 of the way through at B1006871-HDR(3)* and flashes single images from earlier in the sequence. Then it goes back to the first image and runs through to the 3/4 way point.
*I notice that this is the first image without a hyphen after the first three digits.
I`m importing a single file, ticking tiff sequence and follow alphabetical order. This obviously doesn`t work with the way SNS names files.
At 15.55 he goes into this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5FoY-l1BM
Looks terribly complicated. What simple way do you recommend?
Thanks for your help.
Ian

I beg your pardon - the file names stem from the original raw file not from sns.

SNS sort files by the name. Numbers in the names must contain the same number of digits.

This is wrong:
Name_9.ext <- one digit
Name_10.ext <- two digits

This is ok:
Name_09.ext <- two digits
Name_10.ext <- two digits

Perhaps the freeware "Bulk Rename Utility" would be helpful...

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Initially the GUI may be overwhelming but the utility is well documented.
A command line version is available as well.

...den...

thanks. I downloaded it. As you say, there`s a learning curve to it!

Update - my 10 remaining brain cells fought vainly with Batch Rename Utility. But I found Adobe Bridge did the job really simply and effectively: Tools - batch rename - sequence number - 001 - three digits. Problem solved.