Run Image Processor at a later time

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December 8, 2022
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Is there a way to set the image processor up but have it start in, say, an hour.

I have a video that I needed to comvert to JPEGS to clean up the noise (Premiere settings weren't good enought) and it resulted in about 60,000 pictures. My Mac, running Ventura, only has an M1 Processor and 16GB of Ram, and I can only reliably process maybe 3,000 with the image processor and an action before I run out of memory. I would like to find a way to set 3,000 images up to process in an hour, and then start another 3,000 now.

I have a Mac Studio with 128GB of Ram and an M1 Umtra processor coming for Xmas, so this will give me a lot more processing power, possably enough that I could use the Content aware feature in After Effects, but this is all I have to work with for now.

Oh, and I have very little knowledge with coding, but can follow instructions quite well.

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Lumigraphics

Legend

You would have to use a system timer to call a script or action. I'm not at my Macs right now but potentially it could be done with Automator or Shortcuts.

However, if you have one batch action running and try to start another, Photoshop will ask to queue them. Have you tried that?

patrickh27764550Author

Inspiring

I like the idea of just restarting my mac every 3000 pics. It will take me longer to learn to script this than to just do it with brute force.

ty for the responses.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Although it could be modified or a simpler custom script created with a timer, I wouldn't do it this way.

Just move batches of 3K images into separate folders for processing a folder at a time before restarting the Mac for the next batch.

patrickh27764550Author

Inspiring

That's basically what I've been doing, but was hoping to double my quantity before I had to come back to the machine.

thanks anyway.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Even with a timer, scripts don't work that way. The script would run, wait for the timer, then complete. Photoshop would be locked up the entire time while the timer counts down.

A Bridge script could be run as a separate process, where it has a timer that runs a script, waits, then another timer and script is run... But if you are running out of system resources, then you are best restarting the Mac between batches.

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