Does anyone have any ideas how I can put my files & my husband's files from this weekend's wedding into chronological order so I can edit them? Right now, they're just arranged by name and it's so hard to edit because I have to keep going back & forth from my images to his. I've tried to set Bridge to arrange by date but that still won't put them in time order. Is there any way I can sort the photos so that both sets of images are arranged chronologically coz I have 60gb of images to edit and it's gonna take days & days at this rate?!!!

Sofie,
What I do is batch rename all my images by the timestamp...YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS. Now with all your images renamed by date/time, you can have bridge arrange by name, and they should all be organized (as long as you and your husband's cameras were synced with the same time to begin with).

Hey Sofie! It sounds like you're trying to sort the images correctly. Just Edit, Sort, and then by Capture Date. It could be that your cameras weren't time synced prior to shooting and so that's why the images aren't sorting properly.

If that's the case, Lightroom has a great little feature that will allow you to "re-time" a set of images so that you can get all of your images in time sync and edit more effectively.

Might be a great time to make a move in the direction of LR!

Sort by Date Created

That's the option you want in bridge - and it will work great as long as your camera's were time synced in advance.

You can use a program like PhotoMechanic (I think) to adjust the time stamp on one or more camera's images to make them match up with the others.

Lightroom has that option built in as well - adjust capture time is an option in the metadata menu when you're in the grid view.

Good luck!

~Bill

Nate, had a look at the batch rename option and not too sure how you'd rename everything but the time stamp without doing it all manually!

Nathan, Bill - I've tried sorting by "date created" in Bridge and it won't rearrange the files. I'm 99% certain I've used that option before and it worked. Our cameras were time synced so I don't get what the problem is.

Thanks for the replies though.

If you haven't already, you might want to try "By Date file modified."

Something doesn't sound right. Can you tell us exactly what is checked off (Ascending, Manually, etc.)? Can you upload a screenshot?

I've just been trying a ton of different things and tried using some older folders shot on our old D2X &D200 and it works fine. So I double checked and Paul's D3 was set on 2007 and not 2008 He's not in my good books!!!

Thanks so much for your help though & apologies too!

Any way of changing the date in the metadata on Paul's shots.....???!!! I'm guessing not.

Lightroom can do it.

http://www.opensourcephoto.net/forum/index...showtopic=13650

P.S. I don't know Paul, but I want to punch him!

I'm not sure how big you are Matt but I'm guessing that if you knew him, you wouldn't say that. Unless you were already running away


Not that Paul is mean. Or scary. Just large. In a good way. But bigger. Than me.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RUNNING!

If you're not gonna punch him, I think I should make Paul edit this wedding as his punishment!

Thanks for the link Matt - sadly, we don't have Lightroom and that other program mentioned only works for jpegs and these are RAW files.

LR has a free trial period

I just had a similar problem--just got back from 10 days in Paris and realised my camera dates were not synced.

Posted about it and found a solution here.

The software is great because it will edit the original EXIF data and can also do batch edits. However, if you have already manipulated the files in Bridge (rotated, cropped, adjusted in ACR, etc . . .) Bridge will not read the new EXIF data. You have to edit the data before you do anything to the images in Bridge.

Hope this helps.