I’ve never had to organize much in the way of videos/photos, until now. I’m going on a trip for a month or two and want to organize the pictures and videos I will be taking. I’m interested in datestamps and tags more than anything. Does anyone have a workflow that works for them? Any apps that make this easier that I haven’t heard of?

EDIT: I’m wondering about things like, downloading media from my camera and having something sort it all in a schema of my choosing. Maybe other things that I don’t know enough to even wonder. Or, maybe there is no there there.

  • fascicle@leminal.space
    3·
    2 days ago

    For dark table import I make the folder structure like this

    $(EXIF.YEAR)/$(EXIF.MONTH)/$(EXIF.DAY)

    And the rename like this

    $(EXIF.YEAR)-$(EXIF.MONTH)-$(EXIF.DAY)_$(EXIF.HOUR)$(EXIF.MINUTE)$(EXIF.SECOND)_$(EXIF.MODEL)_$(SEQUENCE).$(FILE_EXTENSION)

    This gets saved to a photos folder on my external drive that also gets sync’d to my nas at home with syncthingy

    I used to use photo rapid downloader which was really nice but haven’t figured out how to use it on bazzite

    Photo rapid downloader is probably what you want if you are also doing videos. Just make sure you get the destinations and naming setup for both photo and video before doing a big batch

    I used to split up my photos by format also but gave that up after I couldn’t get photo rapid on bazzite and just switched to darktable import

    • fascicle@leminal.space
      1·
      2 days ago

      I always note this stuff down in obsidian so that next time I reinstall the os I know what I did

      This was my setup for rapid photo downloader

      Photos Destination

      mnt -> photos -> Photography hit the cog to edit

      <Extension (UPPERCASE)>/<Image date (YYYY)>/<Image date (MM)>/<Image date (DD)>

      Videos Destination

      mnt -> photos -> videos hit the cog to edit

      <Video date (YYYY)>/<Video date (MM)>/<Video date (DD)>

      photo rename

      <Image date (YYYY-MM-DD)>_<Image date (HHMMSS)>_<Camera model (UPPERCASE)><Session number (Four digits)>

      video rename

      <Video date (YYYY-MM-DD)>_<Video date (HHMMSS)>_<Session number (Four digits)>