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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I posted this on the OME forum already, but in case that was the wrong place:
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<div><font size="1">I am trying to import png files from a time series experiment using insight 5.1 but cannot accomplish the basic task of associating files at the same position with different time points into the same file set, i.e. generating some metadata
about these pngs. The result is that viewing a file after import always shows T: 1/1, i.e. no ability to step through the frames of the "movie" that the png files describe.</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">The original naming of the files was like this:</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">p0001/t0001_Brightfield.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">p0001/t0001_Red.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">p0001/t0002_Brightfield.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">p0001/t0003_Brightfield.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">p0001/t0003_Cyan.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">p0001/t0004_Brightfield.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">etc.</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">i.e. position folder, timepoints per wavelength within. N.B. some wavelengths are only present at certain time points due to phototoxicity.</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">I also tried changing the wavelength strings to the pattern "c0", "c1", etc. to no avail.</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">Finally, I read about setting a up a pattern file to instruct the importer what to do, and created a directory called "test" with the following contents:</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">import.pattern</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0001_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0002_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0003_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0003_c1.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0004_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0005_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0006_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0007_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0008_c0.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0008_c1.png</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t0009_c0.png</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">where import.pattern contains:</font></div>
<div><font size="1">t<0000-9999>_c<0-9>.png</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">in the insight client i tried importing this whole test directory, only the import.pattern file, only the first time point of each wavelength, all the files within the dir, and the pattern file + the first file of each wavelength. in each
case only exactly those files are imported (except the pattern file, which isn't a valid image) with no association between wavelength sets.</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">since this is a very basic aspect of the import process, i assume i am missing something that should be obvious. any help would be much appreciated!</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">-david</font></div>
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