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Great summary. Thank you. Just one question regarding the program you described - you're talking about the "lss" command you wrote, correct? You said that it e

Great summary. Thank you. Just one question regarding the program you described - you're talking about the "lss" command you wrote, correct? You said that it exists in order to "group image sequences together. This makes finding missing images in a sequence, knowing the range, and dealing with 1000's of files in a folder trivial". I don't know how you're grouping image sequences together, but I can't imagine why a GUI wouldn't be able to represent image groups as well as or better than a terminal program. Could you tell me? Alternatively, is your program open source? I'd love to check it out.

pfranz 12y ago
Each application and vfx studio has their own conventions for notating a group of images (if they're zero-padded, if they're only even numbers, etc). Most of the File Open dialogs for these apps implemented their own grouping. I've never seen a general gui file browser version of this. Here's a custom file open menu from one of those apps that wrote their own implementation (you can expand down to see the individual files): http://www.tweaksoftware.com/static/documentation/rv/current/html/6_Users_alan_build_tweak_release-64_html_temp_images_grabFile.png http://www.tweaksoftware.com/static/documentation/rv/current... Here's a Python library with generic grouping logic: https://github.com/4degrees/clique https://github.com/4degrees/clique
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  > I've never seen a general gui file browser version of this. The hooks are there to do it though, at least in Windows Explorer and Gnome/Nautilus. Something very similar built into Windows with html file/folder groups and zip files. There are tons of third-party Windows Explorer extensions that change the way files are displayed. You can definitely create virtual nodes and hide nodes that you don't want to show (even in native open/save dialogs). While I have no doubt that it would be possible on OS X, I suspect that easy-to-use hooks are not available for Finder like they are in Windows Explorer. You can write a QuickLook extension for Finder though. (Some file browser extensions are easier to write than others. The image sequence in particular would definitely be easier to implement

pfranz 12y ago

Each application and vfx studio has their own conventions for notating a group of images (if they're zero-padded, if they're only even numbers, etc). Most of the File Open dialogs for these apps implemented their own grouping. I've never seen a general gui file browser version of this. Here's a custom file open menu from one of those apps that wrote their own implementation (you can expand down to see the individual files): http://www.tweaksoftware.com/static/documentation/rv/current/html/6_Users_alan_build_tweak_release-64_html_temp_images_grabFile.png http://www.tweaksoftware.com/static/documentation/rv/current... Here's a Python library with generic grouping logic: https://github.com/4degrees/clique https://github.com/4degrees/clique

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
> I've never seen a general gui file browser version of this. The hooks are there to do it though, at least in Windows Explorer and Gnome/Nautilus. Something very similar built into Windows with html file/folder groups and zip files. There are tons of third-party Windows Explorer extensions that change the way files are displayed. You can definitely create virtual nodes and hide nodes that you don't want to show (even in native open/save dialogs). While I have no doubt that it would be possible on OS X, I suspect that easy-to-use hooks are not available for Finder like they are in Windows Explorer. You can write a QuickLook extension for Finder though. (Some file browser extensions are easier to write than others. The image sequence in particular would definitely be easier to implement