Renaming and renumbering image sequences

- If a file name is repeated on your hard drive…it's very easy to have media management issues,…particularly if you're video editing tool…or compositing tool has to go searching…and reconnect assets.…Additionally those gaps in numbering…caused by deleting a frame…could lead to a break in the time code movie…sometimes causing two different movies to be created…or for color bars or black frames to be flashed.…Now this is pretty easy to fix.…For example, I can select a shot here.…Let's just click to select this one…and we'll grab the entire sequence, there we go,…and now I can choose tools > batch rename.…

This brings up the batch rename dialogue…that makes it very easy to rename your files.…Now what we're going to do is rename these…in the same folder.…So I'll choose the first option…and we'll give this a custom name.…Let's call this red rock…and then I'll do underscore.…Then we'll put the date and time that this was created.…Let's do red rock_…and then April_.…

I'm going to remove the date and timestamps…and switch this last one to a sequence number.…