Question / Help Automatically Indenting File Suffix

[CaliberPlex]

I recently got a crash course of OBS in my CS1 class at school and since I learned it's not as complicated as it initially appeared I decided to mess with it in which I think I might use it as my new standard recording software. However as I was toying with OBS just to test it out, I noticed my files didn't have any sort of numbering system for me to see which one was which.

I'm looking for either a setting on the basic program to have a 3-digit suffix that indents itself for every new recording (name001.mp4, name002.mp4, name003.mp4, etc) or a script (which I have no clue how this would work) that will serve the same purpose. And I will add right now before anyone tries to offer this as a solution: Yes I am aware that if you record more than one file with the same file name the file name will dupe itself with (2), (3), (4), and so on. I don't want this. In my opinion it's messy and I want it to look nicer.

I would assume there'd be some way to do this seeing how there are 22 different date file tags (yes I counted) that can be applied in virtually the same exact format. Anyone know how I can achieve this?

 

[koala]

There is no macro for counting like 000..999. But what's wrong with the default naming scheme with date+time? This is sorted in Windows explorer the same way as a counter, and if you postprocess this file later, you are able to easily retain the recording timestamp.
If you use %CCYY%MM%DD%hh%mm%ss (instead of the default %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%ss), you get some kind of 14-digit number, if you like.

 

[CaliberPlex]

There is no macro for counting like 000..999. But what's wrong with the default naming scheme with date+time? This is sorted in Windows explorer the same way as a counter, and if you postprocess this file later, you are able to easily retain the recording timestamp.
If you use %CCYY%MM%DD%hh%mm%ss (instead of the default %CCYY-%MM-%DD %hh-%mm-%ss), you get some kind of 14-digit number, if you like.

It just doesn't look good in my opinion. OCD I suppose. But there isn't ANY way to achieve something of vaguely similar results?

 

[koala]

Not that I know of. It might come as surprise, but if you do more recordings, you will find that simply counting is inconvenient, because a plain number doesn't have any identity. As soon as you begin to delete trash recordings, you will perhaps find that gaps in numbering are ugly and you will probably start to renumber your videos - which is just a waste of time if you think about it. Recording with a timestamp in the name gives the video some sort of identification, is sortable, and doesn't collide with any other name in case you move files around.
Think about how your archive and naming scheme will look like in 1 years, in 2 years with perhaps a hundred video files or more with stuff from several different sources and games or whatever you record.

 

[CaliberPlex]

Think about how your archive and naming scheme will look like in 1 years, in 2 years with perhaps a hundred video files or more with stuff from several different sources and games or whatever you record.

Was looking back at my (very few) posts and noticed this. This is accurate af lmao. Thanks for the advice because I do now have like 300 recordings which have been organized by date which is alot easier to look through.