[Originally posted by raoulj on 2008-09-03 11:15:00-07]
May I dare to ask one mor question ?
Well, let's go :
I now want to extract thumbnail images out of my RAW AND JPG files.
Strangely enough, it seems EXIFTOOL doesn't allow to use the -o option to define the output file name.
exiftool -r -b -thumbnailimage -ext cr2 -o %f(.jpg) DIR
When I do that, I end up with a copy of the original file (8MB CR2-format file) or an error message saying it can't convert a raw to a jpeg...
Nevertheless, it works when I just redirect the output with a pipe (in the way described in the doc's example)...
exiftool -b -thumbnailimage -redirected to- test.jpg
That's not the way I wnat it, since it works only for one file at a time (I need to use a FOR loop in my batch file to achieve it for each file in a directory, while I'd like to use the -r option in EXIFTOOL)...
So my question : Am I doing something wrong ? Or, in other words, is there a better way that works ?
Sorry for all those questions... but EXIFTOOL is so promising that I really want to do everything with it !
Have a nice day
Raoul
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-09-04 10:40:43-07]
The -o option is for the output image filename when writing.
The -w option is for the output text file. The documentation
contains many examples of how to do this. Basically what you want to
do is something like "-b -thumbnailimage -ext cr2 -w jpg".
- Phil