Add file name to picture

[Guilkwe]

I deleted my previous comment to add and correct some information.

@PhLo

That would be sick if that worked adding to the track to apply to all images on the track instead of pasting on each image within the track. When I add the filter to the track with the #filename# meta tag, however, it creates a blank text result in the preview window. The #timecode# field works on the track level, but seemingly not the #filename#?

Now I see that the interface has a dropdown list of fields under “Insert field” though. Nice!

In your example video, MusicalBox, why is there a second timeline on the bottom-right of your interface? I’ve never seen that view before. I’m learning stuff through this too. I might never use this feature, but it’s interesting anyway.

Yes. It’s an interesting feature and can help a lot with automated tasks.

@MusicalBox

You can add the Text: Simple to the track, and use the #filename# tag.
This will apply the name of the image to all your images.

Thank you very much for your help! This option is really amazing and it worked for me. I usually number the images in the folder to be in the desired order, for example: 01, 02, 03… So I realized that the ideal is for me to import them directly into the program when I make a slideshow, this saves time. Because I need to remove the numbers from the file names. In this option that you demonstrated, I noticed that it chooses a font and color for all images. I realized that for very different images it is better to create a text filter for each image. I realized that adding black frames around the images solves the problem of me writing on top of the images. I needed an image editor to do this in large quantities, FrameFun, but it worked very well. I also noticed that Shotcut didn’t add the name #basename to all the images, some he didn’t write, but there were few. Out of 200 images it only didn’t write to 10 images, so I did it manually. Anyway, if this is possible, it would be interesting to be able to add the text filter to all images at the same time with the same configuration, just making small positioning adjustments if necessary. You were always involved in this:

Text: Simple

The Text: Simple filter supports various keywords that will be replaced by Shotcut. Keywords start and end with a “#” character. Those keywords include: #timecode# or #smpte_df#: The SMPTE drop frame timecode of the frame #smpte_ndf#: The SMPTE non-drop frame timecode of the frame #frame#: The frame number of the frame #filedate#: The file modification date of the source file #localfiledate#: The local file date of the source file (adjusted for time zone) #localtime#: The current time of day (…

@brian

Good demo @MusicalBox. You can also choose “File base name” to remove the file extension.

I apologize for my previous comment. In fact, it wasn’t this GPU effects (unstable) option that improved the quality of my editing. What I noticed was that I was only able to import the images into the timeline using the Proxy option. Shotcut does not close automatically when importing proxy images into the timeline.
But when I tried to put text with #basename, the Proxy images had a different name than my original images, so I reverted the Proxy after the images were already in the timeline. Even with Proxy reversal, Shotcut works better with images.
So if possible, it would be interesting if the proxy images managed to keep the same names as the original images.