how to import negative number frames

[veimanarts]

 Im trying to do some compositing but some of the frames in Maya had to be done in negative frames, so when I try to import the tiff images into After Effects it only recognizes those that came after frame 0. anyone have any idea why this is or how I can have it recognize negative frames.

[Mylenium]

You can't and that is that. You have to use some batch renaming to shift the numbers into all positive ranges. As an 3D artist myself I always found it handy to keep such tools around...

Mylenium

[veimanarts]

Thanks, and thought it may sound off topic, would there be some way to do that in playblast?

[Rick Gerard]

Bridge, Lightroom, Automatr (Mac), and about a dozen other free apps will batch rename files. You can even do it with a Batch action in Photoshop.