VueScan

[tomnrides]

Just switched to VueScan (standard version) as my Nikon Scan stopped working ICE properly on batch mode.
VueScan creates scan file names without much user control. How do you deal with this?
Do you relabel with another file renamed software such as Automator (mac)?
Do you just accept VueScan output?
Or Pro version provide more control on this? Did not look that way in trial version.

 

[ruby.monkey]

The 'Output' tab should give you the option of setting the filename prefix, to which VueScan will append a datestamp and scan number; alternatively you should have the ability to turn off automatic filename generation altogether.

 

[Particular]

The users guide explains in detail how to control auto naming:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc32.htm#outputtab

 

[Dan Daniel]

And to be clear, on the Output tab, you need to hit the button to the right of the file name line in order to have a new file name. If you simply type a name in the box, as was my natural instinct (text box, typeable- this is how you enter data, yes??), your label will not be used.

(Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else, but it threw me off for a bit.)

If you add a 'plus symbol' + after a number, Vuescan will give new files the next number in the sequence based on what is in the folder. So for example, when I am running through a roll and making proof prints, my file name is "DATE ROLL NUMBER proof 1+.tif" This gets me a new number on each frame.

 

[ruby.monkey]

And to be clear, on the Output tab, you need to hit the button to the right of the file name line in order to have a new file name. If you simply type a name in the box, as was my natural instinct (text box, typeable- this is how you enter data, yes??), your label will not be used.

Simply typing in the new prefix has always worked for me. The '@' button next to this is used to bring up a file manager dialogue box, but isn't otherwise needed.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Simply typing in the new prefix has always worked for me. The '@' button next to this is used to bring up a file manager dialogue box, but isn't otherwise needed.

Hmmm... interesting. It didn't work for me when I first started using Vuescan. Maybe that was changed or maybe I was doing something wrong. I'll try it again. Thanks.

 

[tomnrides]

much thanks - much more complicated than I hoped - I need to study this.

 

[Bob Michaels]

I assign each scan file a descriptive name when scanning rather than use continuous numbers. I can do this because I edit from the negs first, then scan, so I am only scanning the very few that are selects.

I can instantly relate this image to the file name and vice versa. The scan file is named man-rum-bottle-doorstep-multifamily-housing-Guaro.tif That is so much better for me than a file named 00987657213.TIF

 

[Particular]

much thanks - much more complicated than I hoped - I need to study this.

VueScan is like that since it has many options. Once you have figured out a method that works for you, save the settings and reload them each time you scan.

 

[tomnrides]

Bob, thanks for your file naming tip. i do similar for roll set naming as my shots are more of record purpose than "art photos". yes i do have some of the latter.
where and when was the photo taken? Contemporary clothes yet circumstance appears turn of the century (19th to 20th).

CNNY; i am going to study this! If I were a computer geek, I could do an iphone App and make the process easier.

 

[zauhar]

Also, remember the '+' must come immediately after a number, I somehow messed that up and was confused the other day.

My naming convention is by roll,

<Date><Camera><Film><Speed(processing(><Street/Event/etc> 1+.tiff, something like

15 December 2013 M3 Arista 1600 microphen Street 1+.tiff

Generally after I process the tiff with photoshop, I save as a jpg, and append some additional description at the end in place of the number.

Randy

 

[Godfrey]

I let VueScan name things as it wants, per scanning session, then set the filenames in Lightroom when I import the files for processing.

I use an all raw workflow when scanning. My scanner settings are only to get the full range of tonal data in the originals and apply IR-based dust and scratch removal, when apropos (not for Kodachrome or B&W silver gelatin film). Before scanning a batch, I make sure to edit the date in the VueScan output panel (same place you do the naming) to either reflect the date of the captures (for new work) or the date I scanned the originals (for older work that I no longer remember the correct dates).

I output VueScan raw files encapsulated into DNG format, which Lightroom imports and processes very nicely.

I scan everything and do my pick and discard editing in Lightroom ... faster, easier than doing it on a light table, for me. I run the scanning in the maximum batch mode for whatever scanner I'm running ... up to strips of 6 35mm negs for the Coolscan V, up to 12 35mm negs for the Coolscan 9000, etc.

G

 

[Bob Michaels]

.....
where and when was the photo taken? Contemporary clothes yet circumstance appears turn of the century (19th to 20th). .....

the photo was made about 3 weeks ago. It was in Guaro a small town in eastern Cuba. The housing was originally built for workers who cut sugar cane. When the former Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it ended Cuba's price supports for sugar. As their production costs for sugar exceeded the open market price , even with $12 per month labor costs, Cuba essentially quit growing sugar cane. Now men like this no longer work but survive on the government social benefits. There has been little employment in this town for 30 years as it was based solely on growing sugar cane.

Unfortunately much of Cuba's housing looks like this; built before the Revolution and with little maintenance since. I do not know this man well but it is a very small town where everyone knows everyone and a good friend grew up there and her family still lives there. In fact, I was back there for my friend's daughter's "Quince" or 15th birthday party.

While the rum bottle is for the $2.75 Havana Club, the actual rum in the bottle is the local bootleg rum which costs 90 cents when you bring your own bottle to refill.

 

[tomnrides]

Bob, thanks for the back story -your photo obviously captures that well.