Batch rename - String substitution intermediate filename

[Silvestro]

Hello, I'd like to see some example of this rename feature. I found an article online talking about this, where it says: Intermediate Filename replaces a string that is defined by preceding options in the New Filenames pop-up menus. What are these pop-up menus? Anyone is acquainted with this? 

Thanks

[Stephen Marsh]

Ask and you shall receive:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2019/03/bridge-batch-rename-to-clean-invalid.html

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/02/bridge-vs-lightroom-batch-rename.html

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

The previous links assume some knowledge of regular expressions/grep.

Here is a simplified example:

The first set of string substitution filename dropdown menus define the original name and the initial find/replace routine.

The output of the first routine is set as the intermediate filename dropdown menu which is added via the - + symbols, then a second find/replace is performed on the intermediate filename which then becomes the final filename!

I only used this as a simplified example of how the intermediate filename works, I would probably just do it using a single rename option using a regular expression based string substitution in this example:

[Stephen Marsh]

So, did that help?

[Silvestro]

Yes, perfectly! Thank you very much