Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Run Any Command” Lightroom Export Plugin

By: Robin Cottiss

Robin Cottiss — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:42:27 +0000

For completeness here is what I do for the actual run command step to place a timestamp onto each image so I can see the time of each image in the resulting animation:

mogrify -fill white -stroke black -font Arial -pointsize 36 -gravity SouthWest -annotate 0 “{file} – {T2}” “{FILE}”

Robin

By: Robin Cottiss

Robin Cottiss — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:48 +0000

I have an answer to my own question but if anyone has any better suggestions let me know.

I can use an ImageMagick command to make a unique filename based on the input names. My execute on completion command looks like this:

convert -loop 0 -delay 50 {FILES} -set filename:f “output_%t” “{pictures}\TEST\%[filename:f].gif”

Note the use of the -set to make a filename based n the input. It turns out that IM uses the 1st filename in {FILES} which is perfect for my needs.

It is very cool how you can mix the Plugin template values and IM escape variables in the same command.

Robin

By: Robin Cottiss

Robin Cottiss — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:01:08 +0000

Hello, I am using the Run Any Command plugin to create an animated GIF in ImageMagick. I nearly have it working 100% automatically. I can select my sequence and export and I get an animated gif but the filename is always the same. The actual animateg GIF is created using an ‘execute upon completion’ command and I would like to make the filename unique so if I create several gifs they would not overwrite. Are there any template fields or some other technique available in the post processing step to get an new filename? Thanks.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:11:02 +0000

Jeffrey that helps, however when I use the {Path} token it gives the path with “>” not “\” on Win 7.

example:
D: > users > username > path > to > file

Can you specify the “\” character?

D:\users\username\path\to\file

Thanks,
-Jacob

Yikes, not sure how that happened, but I’ve pushed a new release that fixes it. —Jeffrey

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:42:22 +0000

Can you specify the source image as a command sequence? I need to pull a maker note field from the original file and add it to the exported jpg. Sure, you can use any of the template tokens that my plugins support, including {LIBRARYFILENAME}. —Jeffrey

By: dkwo

dkwo — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:40:43 +0000

I was wondering if this plugin helps you run any command on the image before it becomes JPEG — not sure I described it right, I would like to run a command on the intermediate image (may it be a BMG or TIFF,) sort of pre-processing the image.

You can do that by having Lightroom export a TIFF/PSD, then using the command to do your processing and, finally, if you want a JPEG, have it do that as well. —Jeffrey

By: Vit Kovalcik

Vit Kovalcik — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:32:43 +0000

Just a quick comment about opening a webpage using this tool as was asked by one of the users.
The proper command for running the default browser is:

start http://www.yourwebpage.com

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:23:44 +0000

Dear Jeffrey
(This from Sydney, Australia)
Any chance of a run any command on *Import* filter?
Currently I tediously run exiftools on files where LR (or my camera) won’t recognize the lens (such as CV manual focus lenses). What I do is copy new files to disk, run exiftools in the terminal, then import them. Things have got a bit better with the new beta, since updating exifdata didnt’ work relaibly before, I suppose now I could use LR to import, then exiftools then update.

But how cool if there were a way to run extra commands on import!

Not possible yet in LR3 )-: —Jeffrey

By: John Vanderbeck

John Vanderbeck — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:43:27 +0000

Can I use this to ADD keywords to a photo on export? I tried using exiftool with a basic example from the FAQ:

“exiftool -keywords-=one -keywords+=one -keywords-=two -keywords+=two”

But it didn’t add the keywords.

Your command doesn’t actually refer to the exported file (via the {FILE} token). See the help button for info on tokens. I’ve just pushed a new version of the plugin that includes a warning if the command doesn’t seem to refer to the exported image. —Jeffrey

By: Gotcha

Gotcha — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:53 +0000

Hello Jeffrey, Thank you for your answer. The standard export command is too basic and I believed that your solution could bring to me of the assistance. I need to make several operation after for a batch photographs. This batch passed in argument towards other programs. Best regards. Julien This plugin can't do what you want because it has access to the exported images only for a moment during the export of each image, and doesn't know when the overall export has finished, nor what the final image filenames might be. But the overall Export Action should be able to do what you want, because it will pass all the image filenames to the command you specify. You can make it a batch file (Windows) or script file (OSX), so you can have it do as complex an operation as you know how to program. —Jeffrey Update July 2010 - I figured out a way process all the files at the end of an export, as of version .27 —Jeffrey