GoPro action cameras have totally inconvenient file naming convention, which is, for instance, completely unfriendly to sorting. Example:
GOPR0001.MP4 # video 1 start
GOPR0002.MP4
GOPR0003.MP4
GP010001.MP4 # video 1 continued
GP010002.MP4
GP010003.MP4
GP020001.MP4 # video 1 last part
This script renames files an a more sane way:
GoPro_0001_00.MP4 # video 1 start
GoPro_0001_01.MP4 # video 1 continued
GoPro_0001_02.MP4 # video 1 last part
GoPro_0002_00.MP4
GoPro_0002_01.MP4
GoPro_0003_00.MP4
GoPro_0003_01.MP4
gopro-rename [-nfvr] [-p prefix] path [path ...]
The program takes arbitrary number of paths as arguments. If file path is given, it's processed directly, if directory path is given, all files in the given directory are processed (by default the script does not ascend into subdirectories, but this behavior may be changed by -r flag). Processing involves checking whether a file name looks like it has been produced by GoPro and renaming the file (unless -n flag was specified), with an option to set the file prefix instead of a default "GoPro_". The files which do not match GoPro file naming convention are silently ignored.
Additional flags:
- -n, --dry-run - do not rename files, just print renames to stderr
- -f, --force - rename file even if destination path exists
- -v, --verbose - print performed renames to stderr
- -r, -R, --recursive - process subdirectories recursively
- -p, --prefix - set the filename prefix instead of the default "GoPro_"
Only python interpreter is required, of version 3.6 or higher
MIT, see COPYING.