91.16 Video Rename
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Videos in a directory can be renamed using a standard format of choice. We might begin the filename with a four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, an underscore and then hour, minutes and seconds, another underscore, and then either a sequential count starting at 00 or some text describing the contents, similar yo a standard naming for photos in Section 67.6.
YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_NN.mp4
YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_TEXT.mp4An egrep regular expression for this is
.*/[0-9]{8}_[0-9]{6}_([0-9]{2}|[a-z][a-z0-9_]*).mp4
A directory of videos that contain meta data can be easily renamed
using the exiftool command. Our example here first
uses -testname to report on the renaming but will not do it.
Once the renaming plan is confirmed, replace -testname with
-filename.
If the proposed changes are correct then do the actual renaming by
adding a verbose option -v and changing -testname to -filename:
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