
Tool for grouping many time-lapse takes on single card
After a recent shoot where many time-lapse "takes" ended up on the same card, I was going through the time-consuming task of organizing the files by sequence, when it occurred to me that there should be a tool for automating this process. Such a thing may already exist, but after a cursory search, I decided to make a little command-line tool using Perl. I threw it up on github:
https://github.com/murphlab/takesplitAn example of usage is:
takesplit.pl -i /Volumes/CARD1 -o ~/Photos/2014-01-05-TLShoot > ~/Photos/2014-01-05-TLShoot/summary.txt
It examines the time intervals between all the individual images, and makes its best guess as to how the files should be grouped, creates directories for each take, and copies the files to the directories. It writes a report to output summarizing each sequence's directory, file count, start and end time, etc.
If anyone thinks this might be useful, please give it a try. Feedback is welcome.
Ken