As I scan all these old negatives, I am doing it so I never have to do it again (I hope): I am scanning them fullsize (4000 dpi) as TIFF files. Huge. A single 36mm x 24mm image takes up 44 Mb.
But it seemed there must be some way to take those and re-use/re-purpose them: change them to jpeg files, resize them.
Remember Automator? The app that got the big shrug at the launch of OS X Tiger? Yeah, quite, I ignored it too.
Me three. Seems there sure is.
Then I realized I wasn’t leveraging this Burn Folder idea, where any folder can be magically turned into a shiny CD/DVD. Turns out Automater can do that too. I need to have it monitor the size of a folder to see when it gets to 700Mb. But what to do when it gets there? Hmm. Need to investigate. This looks promising. Might require me to change my workflow slightly, but who cares?
As noted here, you can make any folder a Burn Folder on the fly.
When I get something that
- checks for the size of a directory (seems there could be some math involved to determine when one more file, assuming files of similar size, won’t fit)
- creates a Burn Folder
- populates it
- burns it to disk
I’ll post the results.