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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 t

by 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