I've been using Bridge to sort/tweak/rename timelapse images for many years and over the past year or so I've increasingly run into issues with metadata and file renaming.
One example is in file renaming: if I select, say, 1000 images and rename them with a sequence number, Bridge almost always fails to rename a few. It skips the number that should be assigned to them, so it knows they're there, but those few files don't get renamed. You can tell when this happens because after you select and rename 1000 files you are left with, say, 996 selected. The four unselected images did not have their filenames changed. So I select them all again, rename them all again, and usually after repeating this process two or three times all the files are correctly renamed.
Another issue I have is that Bridge incorrectly identifies the date created for a few files and writes that into the XMP data. These are timelapse sequences so it's easy to tell when that happens. The problem seems to happen a lot more for "Date Created" than for "Date Modified".
The upshot of all of this is that I now spend a *lot* of time scrolling through tens of thousands of images making sure Bridge did its job correctly before I pull the image sequence into Premiere or After Effects to create the video. I'm using the same workflow I've used for more than a decade with many difference cameras, so the problem clearly lies with the newer versions of Bridge.
Has anyone found a solution to these problems?
Thanks,
rgames
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